1. anxiety as and individual difference 2. language anxiety 3. causes, solutions

1. ANXIETY
‘’an individual difference’’

2. What is anxiety ?

3. Scovel (1978:134)
stage of apprehension
II. a vague fear
III. arousal of the limbic
system
I.

4. Limbic system
Interconnected deep
brain structures
II. Olfaction
III. Emotion
IV. Motivation
V. Behavior
I.

5. Gliksman
Negative predicator of
achievement is anxiety.

6. Macintyre & Gardner(1994:284)
Language anxiety is the feeling of
tension and apprehension.

7. directly related to

8. • Many people who are good learners in othe subject areas
can experience anxiety when learning a second language
Math
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Monday
English 
Tuesday

9. Communicative Language Teaching and
Suggestopedia are explicitly directed at reducing
learner anxiety.
or

10. Anxiety and speech
communication appear to
have a strong bond with
each other.

11. Suitable lexis
II. Appropriate syntactic
structure
III. Comprehensible accent
IV. Thinking and organizing
ideas
I.

12. Sypmtoms
Become Forgetful
Trouble
Concentrating
Sweat

13. Classification

14. Anxiety
Facet 1
Trait Anxiety
State Anxiety
Facet 2
Situation
Specified
Anxiety
Facilitating
Anxiety
Debilitating
Anxiety

15. • 1.Trait Anxiety
a more permanent
predisposition to be
anxious. It is related to
learner’s personality.
(Scovel, p. 137).

16. • 2.State Anxiety
apprehension that is
experienced at a
particular moment in
time as a response to a
definite situation.
• (Spielberger 1983)
What if the teacher
calls on me?I always
get the answer wrong!

17. 3.Situation Specific
Anxiety
the anxiety which is aroused by a
specific type of situation or event
such as public
speaking,examination or class
participation.

18. Facilitating vs debilitating anxiety
Facilitating anxiety motivates the learner to ‘fight’ the new
learning task; it gears the learner emotionally for approval
behavior.
Example: Student works hard and passes the exam.
Debilitatiing anxiety motivates the learner to ‘flee’ the new
learning task; it stimulates the individual emotionally to
adopt avoidance behavior. (Scovel, T. ,1978)
Example: run away from exams.

19. Sources of Anxiety

20. •
Horwitz & Cope (1986) developed a foreign language
anxiety scale based on conversation with beginner
learners who identified themselves as anxious. This
questionnaire consists of 33 items relating to the 3
general sources of anxiety.
Communication apprehension
Tests
Fear of Negative Evaluation

21. Teacher’s Role in Class-Room Anxiety
1.
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5.
State of equilibrium in Class.
Positive Thinking towards Students
Encouragement
Overlook Student’s mistakes
Stress free environment.