高中生外语学习的焦虑成因分析及对策研究

摘 要

本文首先回顾了以往的关于语言焦虑的症状，并且设计了一套关于语言焦虑产生原因的实验。然后在高中中进行了课堂观察和问卷调查，根据实验的结果分析总结出了语言焦虑产生的两个主要部分原因：教师方面的原因，学生方面的原因。之后对特定的学生进行了交流，通过交流和之前的实验的结果进一步分析出了一套针对老师和学生两方面的解决策略。

关键词：语言焦虑；课堂观察；解决策略

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ABSTRACT

This paper first has a literature review on the symptoms of language anxiety, and designs a series of survey on the causing factors of language anxiety. It then has a survey based on classroom observations and questionnaires to the students. Based on the results of the survey, it sums up the two main causing factors of language anxiety after the analysis: the causes of foreign language teachers and the causes of foreign language learners. It finally has some interviews with some specially designated

students. According to the interviews and the results of the survey, it sums up a series of strategies for alleviating language anxiety.

Keywords：language anxiety; observations; strategies

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Contents

1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2 2. Definition of Language Anxiety ...................................................................................... 3 2.1 Literature Review............................................................................................................. 3 2.2 Symptoms of Language Anxiety ...................................................................................... 3 3. A Survey Based on Classroom Observations ................................................................. 6 3.1 Observations of Classroom Teaching .............................................................................. 7 3.2 A questionnaire to the students ........................................................................................ 8 3.3 Data Collection ................................................................................................................ 9 3.4 Data Analysis ................................................................................................................... 9 4. Potential Language Anxiety Causing Factors ............................................................. 15 4.1 The Causes of Foreign Language Teachers ................................................................... 16 4.2 The Causes of Foreign Language Learners.................................................................... 19 5 Some Strategies for Alleviating Language Anxiety ...................................................... 20 5.1 Some Strategies to Teachers........................................................................................... 20 5.2 Some Strategies to Learners ........................................................................................... 23 6. Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 26 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ 27 References ........................................................................................................................... 28 AppendixⅠ ......................................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。 AppendixⅡ ......................................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

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1. Introduction

Language anxiety is fear or apprehension occurring when a learner is expected to perform in the second or foreign language [15]176. This anxiety is linked directly to performing in the target language, so it is not a general performance anxiety. Language anxiety ranks high among factors influencing language learning, regardless of whether the setting is informal or formal [32]57

Intricately intertwined with self-esteem and inhabitation and risk-taking, the construct of anxiety plays an important affective role in second language learning. Anxiety is almost impossible to define in a simple sentence. It is associated with feelings of uneasiness, frustration, self-doubt, apprehension, a vague fear. We all know what anxiety is and we all have experienced feelings of anxious. How does this construct relate to second language learning? Any complex task we undertake can have elements of anxiety in it, aspects in which we doubt our own abilities and wonder if we will indeed succeed. Second language learning is no exception of complex tasks that are susceptible to our human anxieties.

In the field of Foreign Language Teaching along with the development of psycholinguistics, the emotional aspect of learners is receiving increasing concern in addition to the cognitive aspect. Of a multiplicity of affective elements that influence foreign language learning, language anxiety is the one that cannot be overlooked. Researchers have studied the effects of anxiety on foreign language learning since the 1970?s, and negative correlations between language anxiety and foreign language learning have already been discovered[8]32. Language anxiety is an awful feeling for language learners and it in turn hampers their potential for foreign language learning. With a view to tackling this thorny problem, the author of the present paper examines language anxiety as well as its effects on foreign language learning, with a focus on the exploration of language anxiety-causing factors in high-school classroom.

Students? low self-esteem, low degree of ambiguity-tolerance, competitiveness and their personality are all interrelated with the occurrence of foreign language anxiety[4]59. Instead of analyzing language anxiety from these facets, the author of this paper looks into the problem from a new angle. High-school foreign language teachers, who lead students to the door of knowledge and guide them to explore in the fascinating world of language, also play an important role in the foreign language

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