Foreign language learning and the creation of anxiety in students : the case of first year students of English in the University of Bejaia

Abstract EN

This study aims at mapping out, analyzing and discussing the generating factors of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) experienced by a group of Algerian students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

The investigation was carried out in the English Department at Abdurrahman Mira University of Bejaia.

Participants were first year level students inscribed in the Licence / Master / Doctorat system (LMD).

The methodological approach is the ethnographic case study based on observation, then arithmetic based on the questionnaire as a tool for data collection.

The authors identified factors such as communication apprehension, Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) and test anxiety as prominent elements in the generation of FLA.

Besides, researchers classified many types of anxieties with their diversified causes and effects on not only the individual but on the learning process as well.