First I set my goal is to keep reading English newspaper and articles everyday and dropping down the new vocabulary in my notebook .When attending to the lesson, I will try to enjoy chatting and discussing with the fellow classmates in English, but never engage in defensive learning. ...
But I also try to encourage my students to look up the meaning in the dictionary if they are not sure and the right phonetic transcription should be always next to each word in their notebook as well. ... I also like giving about ten sentences for translating as homework or sometimes checking the new grammar during the lesson because they help my students practice the specified grammar or sometimes revise the old one. ...
Introduction Anxiety has been diagnosed in different learning settings, but when it relates to second or foreign language learning, it is called 'second/foreign language anxiety'(cited in Hashemi & Abbasi 640). From the 1970s, researchers started to devote specific attention to learners' affects in order to determine what can obstruct the process of second/foreign language learning. Thus, anxiety emerged as a potentially important field of research due to its extensive harmful effect on learners' achievement (640-641). Research on language learning anxiety has been enrich...
