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Current trends in applied linguistics research point to the importance of uncertainty tolerance i.e. low personal need for structure because it affects the development of communicative skills and linguistic self-confidence. In this study, we investigate the correlation of successful performance in German language with the low personal need for structure. Low personal need for structure represents one of the learning styles, the ability of an individual to tolerate ambiguity, the ability to work independently with ...

Individuals? cognition demands are constantly increasing in the current globalized world, and therefore, they have to face the need to work with information in new and more complicated ways not only in their mother tongue but also in foreign languages. In order to orient themselves in the huge amount of information, individuals develop different strategies and procedures that help them sort information and to create a cognitive structure that makes it easier to process information. This process is called a persona...

The personal need for structure (PNS) began to appear in the literature in the 1990s. In its essence, PNS means the need to sort information that an individual receives from the surroundings. PNS is; therefore, closely related to categorization. The ability to structure and categorize helps individuals in their orientation and understanding of things, using categories; it also enables them to understand the contexts and patterns in processes. This is related to the tolerance of ambiguity, which can be understood a...