Second Language Anxiety. Affective or Linguistic Variable?

Review by Ariadna Vergés Bonaventura

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https://doi.org/10.37536/LYM.1.18.2026.4230

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second language anxiety, affective variable, linguistic variable

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  • Ariadna Vergés Bonaventura, Universidad de Salamanca

    Ariadna Vergés Bonaventura is a predoctoral researcher in the Department of Spanish Language, within the area of General Linguistics, at the University of Salamanca. She graduated in Hispanic Philology from the same university (2024), where she also completed a master’s degree in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (2025). Her teaching experience gave her the opportunity to work with students of different nationalities and levels of Spanish proficiency. Her doctoral research focuses on foreign language teaching for older adults as a factor in cognitive reserve, and her research interests include applied and clinical linguistics.

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2026-06-30 — Updated on 2026-07-10

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Vol. 1 No. 18 (2026): Language and Migration

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Second Language Anxiety. Affective or Linguistic Variable? Review by Ariadna Vergés Bonaventura. (2026). Language & Migration, 1(18), 163-168. https://doi.org/10.37536/LYM.1.18.2026.4230 (Original work published 2026)

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