한국어 학습자의 외국어 불안과 모험시도가 학업성취도에 미치는 영향

The influence of foreign language anxiety and risk-taking on the achievement in Korean language learners

The purpose of this study is to investigate foreign language anxiety and risk-taking of Korean language learners and the correlation between them and achievement. The study employs two questionnaires for foreign language anxiety and risk-taking, and one evaluation test for achievement. In this study‚ There are 179 participants who study Korean with academic purpose. The results of this study showed that there are specific aspects of foreign language anxiety and risk-taking on the learners' variables and a negative correlation was found between foreign language anxiety and achievement, especially‚ between foreign language anxiety and productive skills such as speaking and writing. On the other hand‚ it was only found a positive relationship between risk-taking and achievement on the advanced-level. And there isn't any correlation between foreign language anxiety and risk-taking.