A Review on Foreign Language Anxiety

Abstract

The topic of foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been discussed extensively since the introduction of language learning. Several studies have evidence that the anxiety that foreign language learners encounter during their language-learning process can negatively affect their success and performance. FLA is thought to affect most learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), and linguists nearly unanimously concur that FLA is one of the biggest challenges that EFL learners experience when learning a foreign language. This paper reviews the literature on FLA studies, focusing mostly on the definition, categorization, and prior FLA research. A unique kind of anxiety known as foreign FLA is experienced when studying a foreign language. In foreign language learning, students will encounter several types of anxiety, such as anxiety related to learning and anxiety related to listening. Though there is disagreement over whether foreign language learning anxiety has a two-dimensional or three-dimensional structure, most academics support the three dimensions of FLA. This paper also examines the origins and effects of FLA. The majority of academics think that the learning of a foreign language causes anxiety, which hinders learning a second language. This paper leads one to the conclusion that more study in this field is required to validate the findings of previous studies on anxiety related to learning a foreign language and to identify strategies for lowering such worry