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1. Despite sharing commonalities with other well-known performance anxieties (e.g., public speaking), there is something unique to foreign language anxiety?

True

False

2. Teachers should not correct errors in students' oral language for fear of provoking anxiety.

True

False

3. Teachers may help reduce their students' anxiety by doing the following:

Redefine success in terms of communication rather than formal accuracy and grammatical correctness.

Adopt the student's perspective when planning lessons by asking how it might feel to perform a given activity in class.

Identify their students' perfectionist tendencies that may demotivate them in the long run.

Give students ample opportunities to work in groups before asking them to perform individually.

all of the above.

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Talk with a person who is currently studying a second language. Does the person find any aspect of language learning particularly anxiety-provoking? If so, what? How does the person cope with his/her anxiety? Do they think there is anything their teacher could do to make them feel less anxious?

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Foreign Language Teaching Methods: The Language Learner

Lesson 3: Anxiety

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