AbstractSince the 1970s, the second language acquisition has gradually aroused people’s interest , and great progress has been made in this field . Many teachers and researchers have paid much attention to learners’ affective variables,shifting from the focus on external factors of teaching and learning to internal factors of learners .Then, the problem of emotion has become the focus of attention on the progress of language acquisitions
In the study of language acquisition, many researchers have paid much attention to foreign language anxiety
Foreign language anxiety, as one of the most important affective variables ,is a kind of complicated mental phenomenon specific to language learning . The studies in the past three decades have repeatedly showed that foreign language anxiety has a