Speaking anxiety and task complexity effects on second language speech.
The association between speaking anxiety and L2 speech production, including L2 pronunciation, remains largely under-researched, especially in relation to task complexity. The present study investigates the effect of task complexity on speaking anxiety and their impact on specific dimensions of L2 s...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/220641 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220641 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Adquisició d'una segona llengua Ansietat Second language acquisition Anxiety |
| Sumario: | The association between speaking anxiety and L2 speech production, including L2 pronunciation, remains largely under-researched, especially in relation to task complexity. The present study investigates the effect of task complexity on speaking anxiety and their impact on specific dimensions of L2 speech production: speaking fluency (speed, breakdown, and repair) and accuracy (grammar, lexis and pronunciation); and global assessments of L2 speaking performance: accentedness and comprehensibility. Forty-two Spanish learners of English performed simple and complex versions of a monologic oral narrative task. The results indicated that task complexity affected learners’ anxiety levels and was detrimental to their L2 speaking fluency, pronunciation accuracy, and accentedness. Moreover, higher self-perceived anxiety was associated with lower breakdown fluency and less lexico-grammatical accuracy. Last, once the contributions of L2 proficiency and working memory were controlled for, anxiety accounted for a significant 13%–15% of variance in breakdown fluency. |
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