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Types of foreign language anxiety reduction (FLAR) methods - Coggle Diagram
Types of foreign language anxiety reduction (FLAR) methods
The Individual Type
Self-management
Affective strategies
e.g.: positive self-talk
Developing emotion management
Used when experiencing negative effects of anxiety
Self-regulated strategies
Increases behavioral, affective and cognitive aspects of learning
Improves:
L2 skills
Lowers:
L2 writing anxiety
Criticism:
Many strategies were used
Hard to determine which was effective
Developing self-managemnet skills
Mood boosters
Helps to improve learners' mood
Competitive gaming
Music
Web-based learning
Relaxation, concentration, enjoyment, excitement
Results are contradictory
Change learners' individual dimensions
Training/Counseling Type
Improves individual and interactional aspects of LG learning as well
Improves S-S interactions (peer-feedback)
Improves S-T interactions (feedback, debriefing)
Rational emotive therapy + positive self-talk
Psychosocial training
Experiment
Psychologist's goal:
Supportive environment
Psychological trust
Learners' goal:
Develop social skills via sharing ideas on different topics
Both the intervention and the control group received
L2 pronunciation training
Only the intertvention group got psychosocial training
Result:
Intervention group scored higher
Lower anxiety level in the intervention group
Criticism:
Not so practical since it requres the presence and instruction of a psychologist, hard to apply