Open AccessDealing with the Learners’ Language Anxiety: A Pedagogical Inquiry
Author(s) -
Christian Lawrence N. Reyes
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
british journal of teacher education and pedagogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2755-1482
DOI - 10.32996/bjtep.2022.1.1.5
Subject(s) - anxiety , fear of negative evaluation , communication apprehension , psychology , apprehension , context (archaeology) , foreign language anxiety , test anxiety , language acquisition , foreign language , language assessment , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , social anxiety , paleontology , psychiatry , biology
This paper ought to revisit the place of language anxiety of learners in the context of second language acquisition. Specifically, the researcher dealt with its four components: communicative apprehension, fear of negative evaluation, test anxiety, and anxiety in the English classroom. These components have greatly impacted language learning based on the recent research conducted. Also, this paper untangled various findings coming from language experts to support the finding of the study. It is also worth noting that this paper would end with implications of the results generated from the responses of participants. They used a standardized research instrument adapted from Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) originally developed by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986). The researcher used Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) to treat the data. The findings were presented using the necessary tables and figures. It ended up with general implications and recommendations on how stakeholders could lessen the learners' high level of anxiety in a second language classroom.