The Teacher's Perspectives on Students' Language Anxiety

This paper is aimed at the investigation of the teacher's perspectives on students' language anxiety. The teachers who participated in this study include six Asian ESL teachers from four different countries: Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. The methodology employed by this case study, helped to determine teachers' perspectives on students' language anxiety. This study, which was conducted by means of in-depth interviews with six experienced language teachers, offered some alternative insights on language anxiety from a different perspective. The findings indicate that the participants' views on language anxiety management seem to be fairly consistent with their own beliefs about teaching and their own assumptions about the role of the teacher.