论文部分内容阅读
Emotion is common to mankind, it refers to a comprehensive psychological and physiological state which consists of a variety of human feelings, thoughts and behavior, is the psychological as well as the accompanying physiological response to the external stimulation(joy, anger, sadness, happiness, etc).In language learning, emotion refers to learners’ feelings and attitudes during the process of learning.It impacts learners’ learning status and learning effect.Among many emotional factors, anxiety is the main obstacle for the learners to obtain learning effectiveness. (Ox-ford, 1999)
In China, almost all levels of schools have set up foreign language courses, there are countless L2 learners.In the teaching practice, we may find many people are intimidated by foreign language classes for various reasons, fear for reading foreign language books, frightened of using foreign language to communicate.This phenomena was called “foreign language anxiety”.The concept of foreign language anxiety was first proposed by E.K.Horwitz, M.B.Horwitz and J.A.Cope, who argue that “We conceive foreign language anxiety as a distinct complex of self-perceptions, beliefs, feelings, and behavior related to classroom language learning arising from the uniqueness of the language learning process.”(Horwitz, Horwitz
In China, almost all levels of schools have set up foreign language courses, there are countless L2 learners.In the teaching practice, we may find many people are intimidated by foreign language classes for various reasons, fear for reading foreign language books, frightened of using foreign language to communicate.This phenomena was called “foreign language anxiety”.The concept of foreign language anxiety was first proposed by E.K.Horwitz, M.B.Horwitz and J.A.Cope, who argue that “We conceive foreign language anxiety as a distinct complex of self-perceptions, beliefs, feelings, and behavior related to classroom language learning arising from the uniqueness of the language learning process.”(Horwitz, Horwitz