Anxiety in Foreign Language Acquisition


Abstract in English

This paper introduces a negative factor that is related to foreign language acquisition/learning and regarded as a barrier that impedes the foreign language from accessing the brain. Even if the foreign language is granted access, this factor prevents it from being processed properly inside the brain, and hence no output to be produced.

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