Komunikazio-antsietatea euskara bigarren hizkuntza dutenengan [Communicative anxiety in Basque as a second language]
Abstract
This article reports a study on communicative anxiety in Basque of Spanish L1 speakers in the context of the Basque Autonomous Community. The paper aims at exploring the anxiety of adult learners of Basque as a second language. This study includes 346 participants who were assigned to three groups according to the linguistic model they were enrolled when they were at school. Quantitative and qualitative instruments were used to collect the data. The results indicate that there are significant differences in anxiety towards Basque between the three groups. Six factors that can be the source of anxiety in Basque were also identified from the qualitative data.
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