Research on Reducing Business Oral English Classroom Anxiety by Cooperative Learning

DOI

10.2991/sschd-17.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Foreign Language Anxiety, Cooperative Learning, Business Oral English.

Abstract

This paper investigated whether cooperative learning (CL) has positive effect on reducing Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) in business oral English classrooms and improving students' business oral English achievement. In order to find the result, the author just comprehensively applied all kinds of CL methods into her specific teaching practice. The questionnaire about FLA and oral English test were conducted before and after the experiment; besides that an interview was also made after the experiment. After the experiment, the data were analyzed. The results of the study points out that CL, if it can be applied successfully into the teaching practice, can reduce business English language anxiety efficiently and improve students' business oral English proficiency effectively.

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© 2017, 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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AU  - Ling-Jing Song
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TI  - Research on Reducing Business Oral English Classroom Anxiety by Cooperative Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
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