Creating a Low-Anxiety Classroom Environment: What Does Language Anxiety Research Suggest?

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EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Second Language Learning and Teaching Communication in Education and Healthcare

Abstract

given to language learners and their perspectives, motivations, beliefs about language learning, learning styles, learning strategies, and language anxieties.1 Regardless of method, we know that learners need to adopt attitudes and strategies that pay off in terms of low anxiety, high motivation, and ultimately in the ability to convey information and communicate ideas and feelings. One of the current challenges in second and foreign language teaching is to provide students with a learner-centered, low-anxiety classroom environment. In our push to create such an environment we need to consult

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