1. 研究目的与意义

Since foreign language anxiety (FLA) was proposed by Horwitz in 1960s, there is so much research on English learning anxiety both from abroad and at home. Nevertheless, rare studies on foreign language learning anxiety have taken college English majors as subjects (Lin, 2018). Moreover, due to the test-oriented teaching model, English majors may have more anxiety than those of other majors in learning English when they are involved in thoughts about working in an English environment. As a result, further studies on the foreign language learning anxiety of English majors remains a piece of virgin land to be cultivated.

In view of such a circumstance, the author intends to search out the current situation of students English learning anxiety of English majors at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. Meanwhile, by identifying the distribution of the three sources of English classroom anxiety (communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation), together with interviews on several students one by one, the corresponding and accurate ways to alleviate the anxiety of learning English could be made out both from the perspective of students and teachers. It will be of great importance to improve the quality of teaching and learning English to some extent.

2. 文献综述

background

in the last 40 years, research on foreign language teaching from abroad and at home has expanded from studying cognitive functions of learners to the effects that learners characteristics and emotions have on the foreign language learning process and its results. anxiety is widely acknowledged as the most important variable of all other emotion variables, and the hardest obstacle against language learning (arnold, 2015).

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3. 设计方案和技术路线

The questionnaire of this survey, which is based on FLCAS (Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) established by Horwitz and his colleagues (1986), was translated into Chinese to find out the overall status of English major students learning anxiety and the sources of anxiety. Five students of the participants were invited to have a one-on-one interview to help learn more about the specific reasons for the generation of foreign language learning anxiety and their suggestions on the solutions of alleviation of anxiety.

4. 工作计划

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5. 难点与创新点

Since foreign language anxiety (FLA) was proposed by Horwitz in 1960s, there is so much research on English learning anxiety both from abroad and at home. Nevertheless, rare studies on foreign language learning anxiety have taken college English majors as subjects (Lin, 2018). Moreover, due to the test-oriented teaching model, English majors may have more anxiety than those of other majors in learning English when they are involved in thoughts about working in an English environment. As a result, further studies on the foreign language learning anxiety of English majors remains a piece of virgin land to be cultivated.

In view of such a circumstance, the author intends to search out the current situation of students English learning anxiety of English majors at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. Meanwhile, by identifying the distribution of the three sources of English classroom anxiety (communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation), together with interviews on several students one by one, the corresponding and accurate ways to alleviate the anxiety of learning English could be made out both from the perspective of students and teachers. It will be of great importance to improve the quality of teaching and learning English to some extent.