摘要：

本文报告了对某初中初二学生进行的问卷调查以及个别谈话的分析结果，问卷调查以Horwitz的外语焦虑状态测量表为参考，统计分析结果。研究结果表明，大部分学生在英语课堂中用英语与教师和同学交流和得到教师的负面评价时会感到焦虑，并且产生厌恶英语这门学科以及英语老师的情绪，从而导致英语成绩下降的结果。本文旨在通过以上调查来研究中学生在英语课堂中由于教师提问而产生焦虑的问题，为改善中学生外语学习状态、缓解学生外语课堂中的焦虑以及营造更好的学习氛围提出切实可行的建议。

关键词：初中生；外语课堂；教师提问；焦虑 

Abstract:

This paper reports the results of analyzing the questionnaire and individual interview with students in grade 8 in one middle school.The questionnaire takes the Horwitz’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale(FLCAS) as reference to count and analyze statistics.The results suggest that most students feel anxiety when they communicate with their teachers and classmates in English and get negative evaluation from their teachers.In addition,it causes students’ negative emotions to the English subject and to the English teachers,which makes their marks drop a lot.This paper aims to investigate the problem of students’ anxiety caused by teachers’ questioning in foreign language classroom,trying to put forward practical suggestions to help improve the foreign learning conditions of middle school students,relieve students’anxiety in foreign language classroom and build better learning environment.

Key words: junior middle school; foreign language classroom; teachers’ questioning; anxiety

1.Introduction
In the 21st century, with the development of science and technology, more and more people are learning foreign languages. However, language teaching and learning is a complicated process. It may be affected not only by language itself but also by learners’ emotions. Anxiety is one of the most common emotions that may influence foreign language learning. Nowadays, classroom learning is still a major way of foreign language learning. Some previous researches pointe out that the degree of learners’ anxiety is directly related to their learning efficiency. Aida (1994) claims that most of the previous researches have studied on Western language and there has been little investigation of other kinds of language.