Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future

作     者：骆涵 

作者机构：西北大学威恩伯格文理学院 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》 (中国应用语言学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2013年第36卷第4期

页      面：442-464,518页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：foreign language education foreign language learning foreign language anxiety 

摘      要：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.