This document summarizes a presentation about a study investigating the relationship between foreign language anxiety and listening comprehension test performance among Iranian EFL learners, and the role teachers can play in reducing students' anxiety. The study found a moderate negative correlation between students' scores on a foreign language anxiety scale and their listening comprehension test scores. It also found that students with high anxiety showed significant improvement on a second listening test after an anxiety-reducing session with their teacher. The conclusion is that anxious students have trouble focusing on class material or test questions due to worrying and tension caused by their anxiety.