{"pk":38388,"title":"L2 Learner Anxiety And Perceived Competence: The Case For Task-Based Language Teaching","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores task comfort and anxiety levels among learners enrolled in two equivalent yet pedagogically distinct online introductory Spanish language courses. The first course adopts a Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach while the other aligns with a more traditional Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) orientation. Results indicate that both groups of learners experience mild levels of anxiety, but learners in the TBLT course developed a stronger sense of competence and felt more empowered overall to successfully negotiate communicative tasks. Therefore, this study promotes the adoption of TBLT at the beginner level as an approach to advance the development of oral competence and appeal to populations of learners with diverse interests and needs. </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)"},{"word":"Self-determination theory (SDT)"},{"word":"Competence"},{"word":"Foreign-language classroom anxiety (FLCA)"},{"word":"speech acts"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99s6t692","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kathleen","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Guerra","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Denver","department":"Spanish"},{"first_name":"Claudia","middle_name":"Helena","last_name":"Sanchez-Gutierrez","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":""},{"first_name":"Paloma","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fernández Mira","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2024-10-21T16:15:15.861000Z","date_accepted":"2025-04-17T17:55:16.672000Z","date_published":"2025-06-09T16:51:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Final Galley","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/38388/galley/36530/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Galley v1","type":"other","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/38388/galley/36359/download/"},{"label":"Final Galley","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/38388/galley/36530/download/"}]}