10. Trait anxiety-anxious by nature. State anxiety-anxious over the task at hand. Anxiety is the Enemy!!!!
11. 1. Teach students to recognize symptoms. 2. Teach anxiety is only temporary. 3. Provide multiple chances for success. 4. Encourage risk taking. 5. Create a non-threating environment. 6. Lighten the mood. 7. Plan activities for varied learning styles. Defeat it with:
12. First hand contact with the native speakers of the target language. Acculturation:
13. Four Stages: 1. Excited to be some place new. 2. Culture shock. 3. Recovery. 4. Accepting place in new culture. Acculturation
18. Teachers can increase awareness of others by role play to show the relationships of dominate groups to non-dominate groups. Bring diversity to the classroom
20. Learning a “new” language is as much about understanding a different people as it is learning new vocabulary. The front line troops in battling inequality!