Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future
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Han Luo
Abstract
This paper gives a comprehensive review of studies on foreign language anxiety. Foreign language anxiety has been recognized in the past few decades as a situation-specific emotional reaction that potentially impedes foreign language learning. Research has shown that foreign language anxiety is not only prevalent among foreign language learners, but also has various negative effects on foreign language learning. In order to help learners cope with this problem, researchers have identified a large number of sources of foreign language anxiety, which generally fall into four major categories, namely, the classroom environment, learner characteristics, the target language, and the foreign language learning process itself. Researchers have also investigated quite a number of factors associated with foreign language anxiety (including categorical background variables and quantitative learner variables) and have produced mixed results. Based on a thorough review of foreign language anxiety, the paper concludes with recommendations for future studies on foreign language anxiety.
©2013 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Masthead
- Articles
- A Study of the Middle Construction in English with Special Reference to Learner’s Dictionaries
- Authentic or Artificial Materials: The Effects of Material-Types on L2 Motivation
- Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future
- A Contrastive Study of the Passive Voice in Journal Articles in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- The Effect of Language Proficiency on Focus on Form in Doing Dictogloss Task
- A Study of the Impacts of Participating in the “CCTV CUP” English Public Speaking Contest on the Contestants
- An ERP Study on Metaphor Comprehension in the Bilingual Brain
- Chinese Abstracts
