1. 研究目的与意义

accordingto statistics (ministry of education of the people’s republic of china, 2019), in2018, the number of chinese mainland students studying abroad reached 662,000,and it is estimated that the total number of students studying abroad in 2019will exceed 700,000, maintaining china’s status of the world''''s largest sourceof overseas students.

language, as the most frequent considered barrier of studyingabroad, has posed large influence on the psychological well-being,acculturation of the international students as well as the acquisition ofitself.

language anxiety faced by most students studying abroad is aresult of joint effect of factors both inside and outside a second languagelearner and will to some extent influence the process of their acculturation,the period of whom will indirectly reacts upon the degree of anxiety, thusaccelerating or impeding the process of sla.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

research questions:

(1) what are the influencing factors ofinternational students’ language anxiety?

(2) to what extent do these factors influencethe anxiety level?

3. 国内外研究现状

introductionto second language acquisition and language anxiety in its process

secondlanguage acquisition (sla) is the processes by which people acquires a secondlanguage subsequent to their native tongue. the language to be learnt is oftenreferred to as the 'target language' or 'l2'.

at present,the study of second language acquisition involves three fields: interlanguagestudy, learner internal factors study and learner external factors study.

4. 计划与进度安排

1．november26, 2022 selection of the topic；

2．december2, 2022 thesis proposal；

3．january19,2022 questionnaire;

5. 参考文献

chi li, junfei lu amp; na mibang. (2018). counseling self-efficacy of international counseling students inthe u.s.: the impact of foreign language anxiety and acculturation. 40(3),267-278.

glenda lynn rose. (2010). languageacculturation anxiety in spanish speaking adults learning english. 26-49.

horwitz z, horwitz m amp; cope j. (1986) foreign languageclassroom anxiety. the modern language journal (02), 125-132.