Measuring adult learners' foreign language anxiety, motivational factors, and achievement expectations: A comparative study between Chinese as a second-language students and English as a second-language students

This dissertation focuses on interpreting the impacts of foreign language anxiety and individual characteristics on the achievement expectations of Chinese second-language learners and English second-language students at the university level. Four research questions are examined through quantitative design. In relation to methodology, this study utilizes a factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), logistic regression, and chi2 as the statistical methods; in addition, the latest version of Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) is used to analyze the data.;This study provides current and future second-language educators and administrators who plan to set up second-language programs with a broad idea of the extent to which foreign language anxiety, personal characteristics, and cultural differences influence the adult learners' achievement expectations in university sponsored second-language programs. This study also outlines the differences between non-Western and Western adult learners and the impact cultural factors have on the adult learners' level of foreign language anxiety.