Foreign Language Anxiety in SLA

Abstract

Foreign language anxiety is a variety of unpleasant emotional and psychological manifestations caused by many factors in foreign language learning. With the development of second language acquisition in recent years, the impact of emotional factors in education has received increasing attention. It is also becoming increasingly important to study the relationship between foreign language anxiety and second language acquisition and how to reduce the negative impact of language anxiety on second language acquisition. Therefore, this paper starts from the cultural, environmental and individual differences factors that affect second language acquisition, analyzes the causes of foreign language anxiety and its impact on second language acquisition. And then elaborate the solution of foreign language anxiety from the different perspectives of teachers and learners. This paper has three chapters, including an overview of foreign language anxiety, the causes of foreign language anxiety and its impact on second language acquisition, as well as solutions to foreign language anxiety. Through research on the relationship between foreign language anxiety and second language acquisition, the author found that due to individual differences in learners, the reasons for their foreign language anxiety are different, and the impact of foreign language anxiety on them is also different. So both teachers and learners must adopt appropriate ways to mitigate the negative impact of foreign language anxiety on second language acquisition process.