“…Additionally, more and more studies have focused on the relationship between language anxiety and other learning variables ( Oteir and Al-Otaibi, 2019 ). For example, studies on the relationship of FLA with the following variables: Willingness to communicate ( Liu and Jackson, 2008 ; Rastegar and Karami, 2015 ; Yan et al, 2018 ; Kalsoom et al, 2020 ; Zhou et al, 2020 ), learning style ( Bailey et al, 1999 ), self-efficacy ( Mills et al, 2006 ; Eginli and Solhi, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2022 ), self-confidence ( Bensalem and Thompson, 2022 ), self-esteem ( Rubio-Alcalá, 2017 ), learning autonomy ( Ahmadi and Izadpanah, 2019 ), learning strategies ( Abdurahman and Rizqi, 2020 ; Demir and Zaimoğlu, 2021 ), motivation ( Duvernay, 2009 ; Saito et al, 2018 ; Alamer and Almulhim, 2021 ; Ismail and Hastings, 2021 ), learner beliefs ( Aslan and Thompson, 2021 ), and personality ( Dewaele, 2017 ; Šafranj, 2018 ; Šafranj and Zivlak, 2019 ).…”