Sophia Juul (Lund University) — PhD work in progress presentation

In this seminar, Sophia Juul (Doctoral Student, LU English Studies) will outline one of her planned studies on foreign language use-related anxiety among early career Swedish upper-secondary school teachers of multiple languages (English and Spanish, French, or German). The talk will center around both the theoretical and methodological considerations in collecting anxiety-data using the idiodynamic method (Macintyre & Ducker, 2022; Macintyre & Legatto, 2011) in the ecology of the language classroom. With the idiodynamic method having been developed for lab-based research, Juul will outline her rationale for how this approach can be applied "in the wild”, i.e., adapted to investigate teaching as it takes place. This ties into current theoretical discussions surrounding different conceptualizations of foreign language teacher anxiety (Goetze, 2023), and the increasing recognition of the situation-specific and intrapersonal character of foreign language anxiety brought forth in newer SLA research (Li et al., 2022). 

This is a ‘PhD work in progress’ seminar, and feedback is most welcome.

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