Analysis of Foreign Language Anxiety among College English Teachers

WANG Fei; HUANG Yu-mei

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WANG Fei, HUANG Yu-mei. Analysis of Foreign Language Anxiety among College English Teachers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2015, 31(3): 114-118.

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WANG Fei, HUANG Yu-mei. Analysis of Foreign Language Anxiety among College English Teachers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2015, 31(3): 114-118.

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Analysis of Foreign Language Anxiety among College English Teachers

School of Humanities, Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law, Lanzhou 730070, China

Received Date: 2015-02-15
Available Online: 2021-06-16

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Foreign language anxiety is an important psychological obstacle in language teaching and learning.By the implement of the instrument，the teacher FL anxiety scale developed by Horwitz（2008）.The present study makes an attempt to explore the college English teachers'FL anxiety basing on the quantitative data from investigation of 83 participants，conclusion can be drawn as follows：（1）Of all the 83 participants，48.2%are reported moderate and high anxiety，with the mean of TFLAS 47. 7，which is lower than 54，suggesting that college English teachers experience little or no FL anxiety，but part of them reported moderate anxiety.（2）These results may due to the teaching age of the participants.Correlation coefficient between TFLAS and teaching age was－.368.Sig.（2－tailed）was.013.p<.05.Of all the 483 participants，only 27 are teaching assistants.It is no wonder that only small number reported moderate anxiety.（3）The main causes of teachers'foreign language anxiety are negative evaluation anxiety and speech anxiety.
- foreign language anxiety,
- college English teacher,
- correlation analysis

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