The Study Of Senior Middle Students' English Learning Anxiety

Language anxiety ,as one of the principal components of language learners' affective factors in EFL/ESL learning, is attracting more and more academic concerns of foreign or second language teaching and research fields. The present thesis, based upon the information obtained from the questionnaire, consisting of a background questionnaire and the FLCAS questionnaire developed by Horwitz, et al.(1999),and teachers' performances in class, investigates into the possible causes of the English language anxiety of senior middle school students. The thesis contains three studies: Study one attempts to explore English language anxiety from such factors as students' grades, genders, birthplaces, different classes, and different years of learning English and so on. It aims to examine to what extent senior middle school students experience English language anxiety and the effects of anxiety upon English language learning and explore the contributors to English language anxiety in order to adapt the anxiety psychology experienced by senior middle school students in language learning process in case that the effects in language teaching and learning may be weakened owing to language anxiety; Study two studies the effects that teachers' performances in class may give to students' English learning anxiety; Study three studies how much teachers feel their students' English learning anxiety.This paper is composed of seven parts. The first part starts with the necessity and aims of the study; Part Two reviews the previous studies in this regard at home and abroad. The third part introduces study one. In part four, I provide some information...