AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS PERSPECTIVES ON ANXIETY AND SPEAKING
AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS PERSPECTIVES ON ANXIETY AND SPEAKING
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1944-9720.1990.tb00424.x
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发表时间：
1990-12-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
YOUNG, DJ
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作者：
YOUNG, DJ
语言焦虑正在成为我们职业中一个重要的研究领域。削弱语言焦虑会对语言学习过程产生深远的影响。本研究的目的是从学生的角度考察焦虑与口语的关系。演讲活动真的会让学生紧张吗？如果是这样，是什么让学生感到焦虑？哪些口语活动会让学生特别不舒服？教师能做些什么来减少焦虑，特别是在课堂上说话的焦虑吗？一份旨在确定外语口语焦虑来源的问卷调查对135名大学水平的西班牙语初学者和109名高中生进行了调查。问卷分为三个部分：第一部分要求学生同意或不同意与语言焦虑相关的24个项目;第二部分要求学生指出他们对某些课堂实践的焦虑程度;第三部分要求学习者识别有助于减少语言焦虑的教师特征和教师实践。数据分析的结果表明，除其他事项外，在外语中说不完全是学生焦虑的来源，但在全班面前说。此外，教师放松和积极的纠错态度可以大大减少语言焦虑。另外还提供了一些减少语言焦虑的建议
Language anxiety is becoming an important area of research in our profession. Debilitating language anxiety can have profound consequences on the language learning process. The purpose of this study is to examine anxiety and speaking from the students' perspective. Do speaking activities indeed make students nervous? If so, what is it about speaking that makes students anxious? Which speaking activities make students particularly uncomfortable? Can instructors do anything to reduce anxiety, particularly speaking anxiety, in the classroom?A questionnaire designed to identify sources of anxiety over speaking in the foreign language was administered to 135 university‐level beginning Spanish students and 109 high school students. The questionnaire had three sections: the first one asked students to agree or disagree with twenty‐four items related to language anxiety; the second section asked students to indicate their level of anxiety regarding certain in‐class practices; the third section asked learners to identify instructor characteristics and instructor practices that helped reduce language anxiety. Results of the analysis of data suggest, among other things, that speaking in the foreign language in not exclusively the source of student anxiety, but that speaking in front of the class is. Furthermore, the instructor's relaxed and positive error‐correction attitude can greatly reduce language anxiety. Additional suggestions for reducing language anxiety are offered