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A Study on FLA Differences of High―score and Low―score Group Students 　　【Abstract】FLA is a complex psychological state which influences English learners. This paper is concerned with an empirical study on FLA differences of high-score and low-score group students in College. 　　【Key words】A study on differences； FLA； High-score and low-score group 　　1. Background of the study 　　With the second language acquisition research advancing， the focuses of foreign language teaching have been shifted from teaching to learning. The affective factors belong to one of the factors which lead to variation in language learning，among which FLA （foreign language anxiety） is one of the affective factors that most pervasively obstruct the learning process. FLA is the feeling of tension， uneasiness， frustration， self-doubt and apprehension specifically associated with learning foreign language. Horwitz et al. presents the three major components of foreign language anxiety： communication apprehension， test anxiety， and fear of negative evaluation. 　　2. Methodology of the study 　　2.1 Research questions 　　1） What are differences in foreign language anxiety between high-score group and low-score group？ 　　2） What kind of implications can be drawn from the study？ 　　2.2 research subjects 　　162 students are chosen in Liaoning University of Technology. They were divided into high-score group （the mean is 125.97） and low-score group （the mean is 54.33） respectively 　　2.3 instruments 　　The first instrument is questionnaires （Horwitz’s foreign language classroom anxiety scale）. The second one is English Scores of the college entrance examination 　　3. Differences between high-score group and low-score group in FLA 　　To testify difference statistically and make the question more precise， an independent sample T-tests is applied again to get the differences between two groups in Table 1. 　　4. Discussion on differences of four categories of FLA between high-score group and low-score