The Effects of the Fear of Success and Rejection Sensitivity on Learning English
Öz
There have been different studies that have been conducted over the psychological hindrances that can impede the students’ learning skills. These studies/researches helped shed light on the possible psychological factors that might block the students’ learning process. As it is, most studies have developed their focal points on the anxiety-based psychological barriers before the students’ learning potentiality in this context. However, fewer studies have been carried out on delving into deeper sides of the issue that lead to the students’ learning failures. Two factors have come into prominence here: fear of success and rejection sensitivity. Horner, a pioneer researcher, highlights the fear of success as a tendency of a person to feel anxious about the possible disadvantages of achievement. Moreover, Downey, Feldman, and Ayduk (2000) argue rejection sensitivity as an impending factor that makes a person “anxiously expect, readily perceive and intensely react to rejection”. Taking both factors into account, this study will be twofold. Firstly, it aims to show how both factors manifest themselves in an ESL classroom environment. Moreover, it attempts to figure out what sort of variables can reduce/increase the impact rate of both aforementioned psychological factors on the students’ learning failures in an ESL classroom. Within this interdisciplinary context, this study will humbly aspire to pave the way for more research to be done by bearing the issue to an ELT discourse.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Eğitim Psikolojisi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Filiz Yalçın Tılfarlıoğlu
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0000-0002-0683-6218
Tülin Ekler
0000-0003-4241-0959
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
28 Haziran 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Mayıs 2019
Kabul Tarihi
27 Mayıs 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1