Individual differences学习中的个体差异课件.pptVIP

Types of Anxiety Harmful and helpful anxiety Social anxiety: speech anxiety, shyness, stage fright, embarrassment, social-evaluative anxiety and communication apprehension. Test anxiety (3) Tolerance of Ambiguity Tolerance of ambiguity is the acceptance of confusing situations. Language learning has a great deal of ambiguity about meanings, referents and pronunciation. Students who are able to tolerate moderate levels of confusions are likely to persist longer in language learning than students who are overly frightened by the ambiguities inherent in learning a new language. (4) Risk-taking Ab