A Study on the Effects of Teachers’ Classroom Nonverbal Behaviors on Freshmen’s Foreign Language Anxiety

DOI

10.2991/icemct-15.2015.287How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Classroom nonverbal behavior, Freshmen, Behavior modification, Foreign language anxiety (FLA)

Abstract

The research employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. 50 freshmen from Wuhan Textile University participate in the study. The whole procedure lasted for 8 weeks. At the beginning of the research, i.e. the first week, the questionnaires for evaluation of teacher’s classroom nonverbal behavior and students’ English learning anxiety were distributed to all participants in class. After the data in the questionnaire of evaluation were collected, the teacher modified her classroom nonverbal behaviors referring to the results.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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PB  - Atlantis Press
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