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【Abstract】 This paper reports a qualitative study of students’ foreign language anxiety in a rural school. By observing and interviewing, the researcher has collected data and summed up students’ anxiety into two main groups, language classroom anxiety and test anxiety, each of which is also sub-categorized. Furthermore, some teaching implications for rural language teachers have been put forward.
【Key words】Students’ Foreign Language; in a Rural School
【作者簡介】薄蓉蓉(1983-)，女，南京医科大学外国语学院讲师，研究方向：应用语言学，课程与教学论。
1. Introduction
Language anxiety is fear or apprehension occurring when a learner is expected to perform in the second or foreign language (Gardner and MacIntyre, 1993). Language anxiety ranks high among factors influencing language learning, regardless of whether the setting is formal or informal.
Since 1990s, literatures in relation to foreign language anxiety become abundant. Some of the works are reviews or introductions (Wang Yinquan
【Key words】Students’ Foreign Language; in a Rural School
【作者簡介】薄蓉蓉(1983-)，女，南京医科大学外国语学院讲师，研究方向：应用语言学，课程与教学论。
1. Introduction
Language anxiety is fear or apprehension occurring when a learner is expected to perform in the second or foreign language (Gardner and MacIntyre, 1993). Language anxiety ranks high among factors influencing language learning, regardless of whether the setting is formal or informal.
Since 1990s, literatures in relation to foreign language anxiety become abundant. Some of the works are reviews or introductions (Wang Yinquan