Scientists from many different fields have looked into the phenomenon of foreign language anxiety (FLA). The research indicates that it has a negative impact on learning and performance,1 and can affect people who don’t suffer from anxiety in other situations.2 Many researchers have focused on the classroom and categorized FLA as a type of academic anxiety, even while acknowledging that it doesn’t appear to have much in common with anxieties reported in other classes, like mathematics.3 C...
