Foreign Language Anxiety's Forgotten Study: The Case of the Anxious Preservice Teacher

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2015-12-01

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Tum, Danyal Oztas

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This article argues that nonnative preservice teachers are just as susceptible to foreign language anxiety as are inexperienced language learners, a claim carrying important implications for the EFL classroom. The results of the study described in this article indicate that anxious preservice teachers experience significant levels of language anxiety to a degree that may cause them to avoid using the target language and language-intensive teaching practices in their classrooms. The article also proposes steps toward helping preservice teachers cope with and hopefully overcome their language anxiety.

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Learning Anxiety, Students, Performance, Learners, English, Cues

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63610

Journal

TESOL QUARTERLY

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https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.190

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Education and Humanities, Article

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D. O. Tum, “Foreign Language Anxiety’s Forgotten Study: The Case of the Anxious Preservice Teacher,” TESOL QUARTERLY, pp. 627–658, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63610.