A Meta-Analysis of Test-Retest Reliability in Language Anxiety Research: Is Language Anxiety Stable or Variable?

Autor/inn/en	Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan; Tseng, Wen-Ta
Titel	A Meta-Analysis of Test-Retest Reliability in Language Anxiety Research: Is Language Anxiety Stable or Variable?
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 12 (2022) 4, (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan) ORCID (Tseng, Wen-Ta)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/21582440221134619
Schlagwörter	Anxiety; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Research; Individual Differences; Correlation; Measures (Individuals); Personality Traits; Rating Scales; Communication (Thought Transfer); Meta Analysis; Likert Scales; Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachforschung; Individueller Unterschied; Korrelation; Messdaten; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rating-Skala; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Likert-Skala
Abstract	Researchers have agreed that language anxiety is situation-specific; however, whether existing instruments measure stable or transient components of this anxiety remains controversial. Therefore, this study examined language anxiety's trait stability and state variability. The results from synthesizing 21 test-retest correlations based on existing scales showed a large effect (r = 0.82). Meta-regression and subgroup analyses revealed that the aggregated correlation varied with target languages, but not with age, measuring scales, or retest intervals. The overall results provide evidence that situation-specific language anxiety, as measured by existing scales, is as stable as broad personality traits are, but it is not a personality trait. This finding suggests a need to develop anxiety instruments for transient state language anxiety that will complement rather than replace existing scales that are capable of measuring the temporal stability of language anxiety. This finding also provides implications for language research and practice with regard to anxiety, and for research on other individual-difference variables and their measurement. (As Provided).
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