A Study on the Effect of Foreign Language Learning Anxiety on Language Learning Effectiveness
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Foreign language learning, learning anxiety, language learning effectivenessAbstract
The problem of students’ anxiety in foreign language learning has received widespread attention, but the effectiveness of the strategies against anxiety needs to be explored. Further research is needed to determine whether anxiety has a positive or negative effect on performance. This paper reviews domestic and international studies on anxiety and analyzes the consequences and internal and external causes. The paper analyzes that language anxiety mainly comes from personal and interpersonal anxieties, learners’ beliefs about language learning, instructor-learner interactions, classroom procedures, and language tests. Finally, the paper proposes strategies for the student’s learning and the teacher’s teaching mode based on this. Research on anxiety can positively guide students to reduce anxiety in second language acquisition in terms of motivation, self-esteem, social skills, etc., and also help teachers to give correct feedback to students and change the classroom organization and test format to create a low-anxiety foreign language learning classroom.
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