The document discusses anxiety in language learning. It focuses on Group K, which is studying anxiety for their psycholinguistics course. The group members are listed, and their assigned topics are anxiety, the sources of anxiety, and how anxiety relates to language learning and the learning process. The document then defines anxiety and discusses individual differences in learners, including anxiety. It explores the sources of anxiety, such as tests, negative evaluation, presentations, and perfectionism. Finally, it examines how anxiety may help, hinder, or be a result of language learning difficulties, and how it can affect the different stages of the learning process.

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Individual
Learner’s
Difference:
Anxiety
Group: ”K”
Course Title:
Psycholinguistic
Course Code: E-

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Group: “K” Members
 MST MITHILA SARKAR
(2151)
 JAKIA AFTAB KEYA
(879)
 LAILY AKTER (883)
 SABIHA TAMANNA
(885) 2

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Assigned Topics
 Anxiety
 Source of Anxiety
 Language Anxiety and
Language Learning
 Language Anxiety and
process of learning
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Individual Learner’s Difference
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The most common
differences of learners are
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Individual Learner’s Difference
 Age
 Intelligence
 Gender
 Cognitive style
 Attitude
 Aptitude
 Motivation
 Personality
 Anxiety etc.

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 Anxiety is the subjective feeling of
tension, apprehension,
nervousness, and worry associated
with an arousal of the automatic
nervous system.
 Related to the teaching and
learning process, anxiety is
students’ feelings that occur
naturally; such as apprehension,
nervousness and fear.
Individual Learner’s Difference

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ANXIETY
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1. Anxiety in language learning
2. Horwitz and Cope's
theory

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ANXIETY
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3.Types of anxiety
Trait anxiety
 State anxiety
Situation - specific
anxiety

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ANXIETY
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4. Is anxiety normal in foreign
Language learning?

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 TestAnxiety: a main source of
anxiety.
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Source of Anxiety.
 Horwitz et al ( 1986) state that
many students report that they
knew thegrammar but forgot it
while
takingthe test.
 It leadto studying avoidance.

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Source of Anxiety.
Fear of negative
evaluation:
 Evaluation or criticism from peers is a major
source of anxiety.
 Afraid to speak out loud in front of class during
speaking practice.
 Young (1991) found that anxious learners
thought their skills in language were weaker
than their fellows and they were looking down

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Source of Anxiety.
Presentation:
 Expressing their feeling of anxiety during
presentation.
 Very painful for the students to make a
presentation in front of teachers without
preparation.

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Source of Anxiety.
Fear of perfection :
 Unable to pronoun exactly like the native
speakers. .

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Language Anxiety and Language Learning.
Three different
positions:
 Anxiety facilitates language
learning.
 Anxiety has a negative
impact on language learning.
 Language anxiety is the
result of difficulties with
learning rather than their
cause.

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Language Anxiety and Language Learning.
 Anxiety
 related to marks.
 negative effect on
learning.
 Low levels of anxiety
 lead to more effort
 High levels of anxiety
 negatively affected
motivation

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Language Anxiety and Language Learning.
 Anxiety – cause of poor achievement or
the result?

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Language Anxiety and Process of Learning.
 According to the model proposed by Maclntyre and
Gardner, the relationship between anxiety and learning is
moderated by the learner’s stage of development and by
situation specific learning experiences.
 The model hypothesizes that learners initially experiences
little anxiety so there is no effect on learning.

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Language Anxiety and Process of Learning.
 Subsequently, language anxiety develops if learners have
bad learning experiences.
 And at the later stage, poor performance and continued
bad learning experiences result in increased anxiety.

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Language Anxiety and Process of Learning.
 Maclntyre and Gardner also pointed out that anxiety can
be hypothesized to affect the different stages of the
learning process.The stages are:
 The input stage
 The processing stage
 The output stage

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Language Anxiety and Process of Learning.
 According to Spielman and Radnofsky, there are two kinds
of anxiety :
 Euphoric or non -euphoric
 Dysphoric or non-dysphoric

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Reference
Ellis, R. (1994). The study of
second language acquisition.

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