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tem, which often appears in the form of negative feelings ofhaving no confidence in oneself, nervousness and worrying’’. Leary (1983) claimedthat anxiety was as “a cognitive-affective response represented by physiologicalarousal and apprehension regarding a potentially negative outcome that the individualperceives as impending”. May (1996) claims that “anxiety is the apprehension cuedoff by a threat to some value that the individual hold essential to his existence as apersonality”. On the basis of points of Cheng Dongying (2002), anxiety is related tothe person who experiences the coming unhappy and complex emotional state ofapprehension, worry, and nervousness, annoyance, which can be dangerous or be athreat.
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2.2 Studies on Foreign Language Anxiety
In our country, English is one of the three main subjects which will be studied byall senior high school students. Moreover, high school students’ English learningmainly happens in traditional classroom learning environment. So based on the realityof China, foreign language anxiety and second language anxiety are usually regardedas English learning anxiety in this paper.According to the studies of MacIntyre and Gardner (1991), they support thatanxiety has the strongest relationship with language achievements. So in this part, itconsists of a literature review that is about foreign language anxiety, including itsdefinitions, classifications. Foreign language anxiety is regarded as one of the most essential emotionalfactors for foreign or second language learners. Arnold (2000) claimed that during thepast four decades there were much more studies on anxiety in education all around theworld. These studies found that anxiety was possibly the most vital obstacle in thelearning process. Since the mid-1980s, foreign language anxiety has been consideredas a conceptually different anxiety when it is compared with other kinds of anxiety,for example, state anxiety, trait anxiety and test anxiety. In 1986, Horwitz and hiscolleagues began to do the research of foreign language learning. Then Horwitz et al.(1986) firstly put forward the conceptualized foreign language anxiety as “a distinctcomplicated of self-perception, beliefs, feelings, and behaviors related to classroomlanguage learning arising from the special language learning process”. Based on thedefinition of MacIntyre and Gardner (1989), language anxiety is regarded as oneanxious feeling existed in the situation where learners need to use foreign languages.However, the learner is not fully skilled in this situation.
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Chapter Three Methodology ........24
3.1 Research Questions......24
3.2 Research Subjects ........24
3.3 Research Instruments ...........25
3.3.1 Questionnaire .....25
3.3.2 Interview ....26
3.4 Data Collection ....27
3.5 Data Analysis .......28
Chapter Four Results and Discussion .......29
4.1 Reliability of the Questionnaire ...........29
4.2 General Situation of Writing Anxiety ..........30
4.3 Causes of Writing Anxiety ...........34
4.4 Discussion of the Results and Findings .......38
Chapter Five Conclusion......40
5.1 Findings of the Study ...........40
5.2 Implications of the Study .....40
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study ...........45

Chapter Four Results and Discussion

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