Helping Students Overcome Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety in the English Classroom: Theoretical Issues and Practical Recommendations

Autor/inn/en	Tsiplakides, Iakovos; Keramida, Areti
Titel	Helping Students Overcome Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety in the English Classroom: Theoretical Issues and Practical Recommendations
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 2 (2009) 4, S.39-44 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Anxiety; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Case Studies; Student Characteristics; Speech Communication; Intervention; Elementary Secondary Education; Public Education; Early Adolescents; Middle School Students; Semi Structured Interviews; Group Discussion; Observation; Student Attitudes; Classroom Environment; Teacher Student Relationship; Program Effectiveness; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Angst; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Öffentliche Erziehung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Gruppendiskussion; Beobachtung; Schülerverhalten; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Griechenland
Abstract	Despite the fact that foreign language speaking anxiety is a common phenomenon in the teaching of English as a foreign language in Greece, teachers do not always identify anxious students, and often attribute their unwillingness to participate in speaking tasks to factors such as lack of motivation, or low performance. This article aims to contribute to the literature on language anxiety and to provide teachers with strategies for reducing foreign language speaking anxiety stemming from students' fear of negative evaluation from their peers and perception of low ability. Using qualitative research, it presents a classroom-based case study which aims at examining the characteristics of anxious students with a view to implementing classroom interventions to reduce foreign language speaking anxiety. The effectiveness of these interventions is also presented and evaluated, and the pedagogical implications of the findings are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01