国外外语学习焦虑研究述评

A Review of the Literature on Foreign Language Learning Anxiety Abroad

近年来,许多国外的学者对焦虑如何影响外语学习这一课题进行了研究,其研究成果可以归纳为三点:1)语言焦虑是一种独特的焦虑结构体,应该与一般焦虑区分开来;2)语言焦虑研究应该以具体的外语学习任务为研究对象;3)焦虑对外语学习的影响与学习任务的难易程度有关。

In recent years,the issue of how anxiety affects foreign language learning has attracted much scholarly attention abroad,and fruitful findings have been obtained.These findings can be summarized as follows.Firstly,language anxiety is a distinct construct of anxiety and should be differentiated from general anxiety.Secondly,language anxiety studies should focus on specific foreign language learning tasks.Thirdly,the effects of anxiety on foreign language learning have to do with the difficulty of the task that the learner is faced with.