Abstract: This paper reports the results of analyzing the questionnaire and individual interview with students in grade 8 in one middle school.The questionnaire takes the Horwitz’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale(FLCAS) as reference to count and analyze statistics.The results suggest that most students feel anxiety when they communicate with their teachers and classmates in English and get negative evaluation from their teachers.In addition,it causes students’ negative emotions to the English subject and to the English teachers,which makes their marks drop a lot.This paper aims to investigate the problem of students’ anxiety caused by teachers’ questioning in foreign language classroom,trying to put forward practical suggestions to help improve the foreign learning conditions of middle school students,relieve students’anxiety in foreign language classroom and build better learning environment.

Key words: junior middle school; foreign language classroom; teachers’ questioning; anxiety

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摘要

Abstract

1.Introduction1

2.Acknowledgment of Students’ Anxiety2

  2.1 Definition of Anxiety

  2.2 Classification of Students’ Anxiety

2.2.1 Communication Apprehension

2.2.2 Fear of Negative Evaluation

2.2.3 Test Anxiety

3.Students’ Anxiety Caused by Teachers’ Questioning4

  3.1 Factors of Students’ Anxiety Caused by Teachers’ Questioning

    3.1.1 Degree of Difficulty of Questions

3.1.2 Teachers’ Ways of Questioning

  3.2 Influence of Students’ Anxiety Caused by Teachers’ Questioning

4.A Survey on Classroom Anxiety Caused by Teachers’ Questioning7

  4.1 Purpose of Survey

  4.2 Design of Survey

  4.3 Data Collection and Analysis

  4.4 Enlightenment of Research to Control Classroom Anxiety

5.Conclusion11

Bibliography12

Appendix13

Acknowledgments15