Stress and Anxiety In Language Classes

Feelings of anxiety, apprehension and nervousness are commonly expressed by second/foreign language learners in learning to speak a second/foreign language. These feelings are considered to exert a potentially negative and detrimental effect on communication in the target language. The use of modern communicative language teaching approaches in the language classrooms and the wide-spread use of English Language have increased the demand to learn good communication skills but existence of such feelings in the learners may prevent them from achieving the desired goal. Consideration of learners anxiety reactions in learning to speak another language by a language teacher is deemed highly important in order to assist them to achieve the intended performance goals in the target language.

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Masoud Hashemi and Masoud Azizinezhad are faculty members at English Language and Literature Department , Tuyserkan Branch , Islamic Azad University , Tuyserkan , Iran Their main interests are English language methodology and translation studies.