Creating a Low-Anxiety Classroom Environment: What Does Language Anxiety Research Suggest?
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given to language learners and their perspectives, motivations, beliefs about language learning, learning styles, learning strategies, and language anxieties.1 Regardless of method, we know that learners need to adopt attitudes and strategies that pay off in terms of low anxiety, high motivation, and ultimately in the ability to convey information and communicate ideas and feelings. One of the current challenges in second and foreign language teaching is to provide students with a learner-centered, low-anxiety classroom environment. In our push to create such an environment we need to consult
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Young (1991) found that calling students one by one to participate evokes students' speaking anxiety.
“This result is in line with that of Young (1991), who found that calling students one by one to participate evokes students' speaking anxiety.”
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- Authors
- Young, D. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- Corresponding author
- Young, Dolly Jesusita
- Venue
- The Modern Language Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1991
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 426
- ISSN
- 0026-7902 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1994936072
- Cited by
- 1,041
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 32.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Modern Language Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Keywords
- language anxiety, second language teaching, foreign language teaching, student-centered learning, student motivation, learner beliefs, learning strategies, learning styles
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