Coping with anxiety and improving learning strategies : Japanese ESL learners in the UK

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The purpose of this study is to explore the roles of anxiety in language learning as well as skills and strategies to manage anxiety in a study-abroad ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom context by examining Japanese students learning English in the UK (United Kingdom). This research employed questionnaires to study the experiences of 35 Japanese students who were currently learning English at two different British universities. Further interviews were also conducted with six students in the courses mentioned above and four teachers who were in charge of the courses. The fieldwork was done in May and July of the same year in order to obtain comparative data for the retrospective research. The Japanese students felt anxiety in particular while speaking English in the classroom and identified similar negative effects that were similar to those reported in earlier SLA (Second Language Acquisition) research. It was also found that many students often employed learning strategies to cope with their anxiety and the perceptions of learners changed over a learning period-more students became less nervous and got used to the new teaching style and activities for learning English in the UK environment.
社団法人大学英語教育学会の論文
2010-03-20