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Even Teachers Get the Blues: Recognizing and Alleviating Language Teachers' Feelings of Foreign Language Anxiety
Author(s) -
Horwitz Elaine K.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1996.tb01248.x
Subject(s) - foreign language anxiety , feeling , anxiety , foreign language , psychology , language assessment , blues , second language attrition , language education , comprehension approach , mathematics education , social psychology , art , psychiatry , art history
Many foreign language students report feeling anxious about language learning. This paper argues that many nonnative foreign language teachers experience foreign language anxiety and that this anxiety can have negative consequences for language teaching. It discusses how anxiety affects teachers' feelings of selfconfidence, use of the target language, and instructional choices and offers suggestions for increasing teachers' target language confidence.