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标题：Foreign Language Learning (FLL) Anxiety and the Coping Strategies: The Case of Iranian High School Students
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作者：Nouroddin Yousofi ; Soroor Ashtarian
期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：117
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Foreign language learning (FLL) anxiety has been widely defined as a subjectivefeeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry (Young 1991) associated specificallywith the foreign language learning situations. This paper aims to report the results of a studyconducted to identify a typology of the FLL anxiety in the Iranian context and among Iranianhigh school students who learn English as a foreign language, the sources of, and the strategiesthat students use to cope with the anxiety they experience in English language classrooms.Results revealed that students experienced four types of anxiety as identified in the literaturenamely, test anxiety, communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation and English classanxiety. It was also found that the sources were related to the learner, the teacher, theclassmates, and the institution. The coping strategies were identified as preparation, positivethinking, relaxation, peer seeking, resignation, reliance on first language as a compensationstrategy and religious beliefs as another coping strategy. Based on these findings, pedagogicalimplications related to FLL anxiety management are also discussed.
关键词：Anxiety Types; Coping Strategies; FLL Anxiety; Iranian Students; Sources of Anxiety