Foreign Language Anxiety: Understanding Its Status and Insiders' Awareness and Attitudes
Foreign Language Anxiety: Understanding Its Status and Insiders' Awareness and Attitudes
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外语焦虑：了解其现状及业内人士的认知和态度
DOI：
10.1002/tesq.85
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Karen Moni
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作者：
T. Tran;R. B. Baldauf;Karen Moni
外语焦虑被发现存在于所有研究过外语焦虑的文化中，但文献中提供的实证证据有限，无法说明外语学生和外语教师作为外语焦虑现象的直接利益相关者是否意识到了外语焦虑。本研究调查了外语学生和外语教师在多大程度上意识到外语学习现象的存在以及他们对外语学习现象的态度。约419名在越南一所大学攻读不同专业的非英语专业学生和8名英语外语教师参与了这项研究。采用的方法是三角测量法，包括通过问卷、访谈和学生自传收集数据。调查结果表明，约三分之二的学生患有不同程度的外语学习障碍，但教师对此重视不够。研究表明，外语学习对大多数学生都有影响，教师在教学中应该考虑到这一点。
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in all of the cultures where it has been studied, yet the literature provides limited empirical evidence to indicate whether foreign language students and teachers, as the direct stakeholders in the phenomenon, are aware of it. This study investigated the extent to which foreign language students and teachers are aware of the existence of the phenomenon of FLA and their attitudes towards it. Some 419 non-English-major students, who were undertaking various majors in a university in Vietnam, and eight teachers of English as a foreign language participated in the study. Methodological triangulation, which involved collecting data using questionnaires, interviews, and student autobiographies, was adopted. The findings indicate that approximately two thirds of the students suffered from FLA to some degree, yet the teachers did not attribute adequate importance to it. The study suggests that FLA has an impact on the majority of students and that teachers should take this into account in their teaching.