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


Tum D. O.

TESOL QUARTERLY, cilt.49, sa.4, ss.627-658, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 49 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/tesq.190
  • Dergi Adı: TESOL QUARTERLY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.627-658
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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.