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ERIC Number: EJ1131715
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jul
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-2203-4714
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Language Anxiety as a Major Impediment in Learning/Teaching English
Choubey, Asha
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, v2 n2 p210-218 Jul 2011
Feelings of anxiety, apprehension and nervousness are commonly expressed by second/foreign language learners in learning to speak a second/foreign language. These feelings are considered to exert a potentially negative and detrimental effect on communication in the target language. I shall dwell on my own experience as a practitioner of ELT, and narrate the lessons that I learnt by trial and error method. I can divide my class in four distinct groups, (the Rural Hindi group /the Urban Hindi group/ the Classroom Exposure group and the Classroom & Social Exposure group; RH/UH/CE/CSE) as they sit together in the Engineering class. Since I am more interested in the psychological aspect of language anxiety, I have used humour, relaxation and even distraction to therapeutic effects.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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