%0 Journal Article
%T The role of foreign language anxiety on L2 utterance fluency during a final exam
%A Susana P¨Śrez Castillejo
%J Language Testing
%@ 1477-0946
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0265532218777783
%X This study examines how foreign language anxiety (FLA) and proficiency relate to second language (L2) utterance fluency during a final oral exam. Thirty-eight learners of Spanish (L1 English) completed unplanned narratives that were coded for ratio and length of pauses between and within Analysis of Speech Units, mean length of run, phonation-time ratio, and articulation rate. LearnersĄŻ oral proficiency was measured with an aural/oral sentence imitation task. Multiple regression analyses showed that anxiety is a strong predictor for certain temporal features associated with subjective ratings of fluency. Overall oral proficiency, however, was not a significant predictor in any case. The findings confirm the interference of FLA with cognitive processing and contribute to our understanding of the challenges faced by anxious learners during classroom-based language assessment
%K Affective factors
%K foreign language anxiety
%K L2 cognitive fluency
%K L2 utterance fluency
%K oral exam data
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265532218777783