Foreign Language Anxiety, Important Causes, and Effective Solutions

The present paper is a brief review of the important sources of foreign language anxiety concerning the viewpoints of different scholars. Foreign language anxiety is seen in every aspect of language learning, particularly in speaking settings, in which language learners have to speak in front of others and may be corrected by others. Foreign language learning anxiety may be arisen a lot when language learners are constantly corrected by language teachers in front of many students in language learning settings. In this paper, some probably influential solutions are given to resolve the problem and decrease language learners’ anxiety problem and facilitate learning process. In this paper, the role of language teacher in decreasing the degree of foreign language anxiety has been explored.

Keywords:

Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) , Foreign language learning , language communication