"Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety"
This project aims to define foreign language anxiety and moves to characterize anxiety’s effect upon a student’s learning of a second language in the classroom environment. The journal explains that foreign language anxiety is a unique type of specific anxiety that is limited to language learning. Horwitz, et al. analyses previous second language studies that establish connections between anxiety and communicative language learning. The authors demonstrate the specific symptoms and responses that anxious students experience in the foreign language classroom. “Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety” identifies foreign language anxiety through its own development and implementation of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (C). Through the study, the authors suggest that foreign language anxiety greatly affects speaking and listening skills. “Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety” states that this form of anxiety has three characteristics: a fear of communicating in the target language, test anxiety, and likelihood of pessimistic judgment by others (127).
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