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Article: Students' voices on foreign language anxiety.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Abstract
This paper discusses two anxious learners' perceptions of themselves in Japanese class: fear of miscommunication, fear of failure, and ideal learners vs. themselves, which often led them to feel inferior. This paper suggests the importance to consider learners holistically.
Introduction
The Japanese language has become the fifth most commonly taught language since 1990 (Survey of Foreign Language Registrations in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, cited in Samimy 1994, Samimy and Tabuse 1992). However, the attrition rate of students who take Japanese classes has become "as much as eighty percent" (Mills, Samuels, & Sherwood, 1987, ...