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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety

Elaine K. Horwitz, +2 more
- 01 Jun 1986 - 
- Vol. 70, Iss: 2, pp 125-132
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In this paper, anxiety is defined as the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the autonomic nervous system, which impedes the ability to perform successfully in a foreign language class.
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teachers of foreign languages. Many people claim to have a mental block against learning a foreign language, although these same people may be good learners in other situations, strongly motivated, and have a sincere liking for speakers of the target language. What, then, prevents them from achieving their desired goal? In many cases, they may have an anxiety reaction which impedes their ability to perform successfully in a foreign language class. Anxiety is the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the autonomic nervous system.2 Just as anxiety prevents some people from performing successfully in science or mathematics, many people find foreign language learning, especially in classroom situations, particularly stressful.

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Formal and Informal Linguistic Environments in Language Acquisition and Language Learning.

Stephen Krashen
- 01 Jun 1976 - 
TL;DR: In this article, evidence is presented to support the hypothesis that informal and formal environments contribute to different aspects of second language competence, the former affecting acquired competence and the latter affecting learned competence, and a distinction must be made between informal environments in which active language use occurs regularly and those in which language use is irregular.
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