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Primary School Students’ English Classroom Anxiety and the Effect of Teachers’ Teaching Behavior on It

LI Yan-fang, WANG Ying, ZHENG Yu-ping, DONG Qi   

  1. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University. Beijing 100875
  • Online:2010-01-15 Published:2010-01-15

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Abstract: With the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale(FLCAS) and English Teachers' Teaching B ehavior Questionnaire as the instruments and 399 students from grades 3 to 6 as the subjects,the study exp lored the development trends of Chinese primary school students' English classroomanxiety,and the effect of English teacher's teaching behavior on it.The results found that:(1) the primary schoo l students' English classroomanxiety increase with the rise of grades,and the level of anxiety of students in grade 5 and 6 is significantly higher than tho se in grade 3 and 4;(2) Communicating anxiety and testing anxiety are the two main types of anxiety in primary school;(3) No significant gender difference was found inall the three aspects of English classroomanxiety;(4) Teachers' negative reactionand evaluation,encouragement and assistance are the major predictors of students' English classroomanxiety.These founding indicated that teachers and parents should pay more attention to the English classroomanxiety of students in higher grades,and English teachers should try to give students more positive evaluation,which will be very helpful toreduce their English classroomanxiety.

Key words: primary school students, english classroomanxiety, teacher’s teaching behavior

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  • G442
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