外语学习焦虑与合作学习

Foreign language anxiety and cooperative learning

近年来,国外的学者广泛关注外语学习焦虑和合作学习。目前对于利用合作学习减轻外语学习焦虑提高外语语言水平的实证调查国内还很少。本文就合作学习能否减轻学生外语学习焦虑并提高其外语水平进行试验研究。调查和实验结果表明,实验组学生的外语学习焦虑得到有效减轻,其英语水平也有所提高,特别体现在听力和词汇这两方面。

In the past few years, the researchers abroad had paid much attention to the foreign language anxiety and cooperative learning. Researchers of foreign language anxiety have succeeded in examining and recognizing the specific effects of foreign language anxiety. Although the researchers abroad has indicated the CL treatment has positive impact on alleviating foreign language anxiety, researchers at home have not paid much attention to it, and as a result, very little empirical research has been done in this field in China. This study aims at investigating the effects of CL on the alleviation of students＇anxiety in their EFL learning in the classroom. After sixteen weeks＇experiment, the foreign language anxiety of the learners in the experimental group was efficiently reduced and the English proficiency of them was found to be improved, especially, the listening and vocabulary.