language anxiety
Fear speaking foreign
Language anxiety is the nervousness or fear people experience when using or learning a language, especially a foreign one.
It manifests as self-consciousness about speaking, fear of making mistakes, or freezing up in conversation: My language anxiety kicks in whenever I have to order food in French.
The term appears frequently in second-language education research.
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- stage frightFear of performing publicly
- public speakingAddressing a live audience
- stammeringInvoluntary speech repetition
- freezingExtremely cold
mind goes blank · tongue-tied · sweating · cold sweat · blanking · mental block · lost for words · classroom · foreign · native speaker · speaking · shyness · dread · fear of judgment · hesitation · stumbling · palms · heartbeat
- sociolinguisticssociolinguistics, diglossia, bilingualism, dialects, code-switching
- language biasregional bias, prescriptivism
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