María Dolores García-Pastor and Ronan Miller present the current state of their research on dysphemia and learning of English as foreign language in the research Seminar of GIEL, which took place at the Faculty of Teacher Training of the University of Valencia on 12 September 2017.

Professor Maria Luísa Álvarez Pereira, from the research group PROTEXTOS (University of Aveiro, Portugal) was also invited to give a presentation on multimodal methodology of data collection and analysis in research on the writing process.

García-Pastor and Miller corroborated the results obtained in their study so far, which show that the pupils with stutter (AAQ) present higher levels of anxiety in a foreign language (ALE) than the pupils without stutter (ASQ).  However, in writing, the latter present higher levels of ALE than the former.  Both researchers conclude that it is necessary to explore the anxiety that both student populations experience before and during the L2/FL writing process in order to answer some questions and, ultimately, to improve the learning experience of both groups in writing composition.

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