I get very anxious: anxiety, beliefs, and actions of a Brazilian student about learning English as a foreign language

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Karolina
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Mukai, Yûki
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/32810
• topic: Ansiedade; Crenças; Ações; Aprendizagem; Língua Estrangeira; Língua Inglesa; Anxiety; beliefs; actions; learning; foreign language; english language

This research aimed to investigate the anxiety, beliefs, and actions of a Brazilian student of English as a foreign language (FL) regarding her English learning. Two specific objectives were outlined to achieve the general one: to identify the participant's anxiety, beliefs and actions about the English language and its learning; analyze the relationship between the participant's anxiety, beliefs, and actions. This is a qualitative research of an interpretive nature with a focus on the contextual approach to the study of beliefs, using the intrinsic case study method. The results of this research showed that the participant presents anxiety when performing oral activities in pairs, smaller groups or with the whole class, in tests of oral production and oral comprehension and she is afraid of being corrected by the teacher in front of her classmates. Despite her fears, the participant believes in the effectiveness of oral activities in groups or pairs and in corrective feedback for the development of FL learning. In spite of those beliefs, she acts in a way as to avoid participating in those oral tasks, so that she does not need to speak or be corrected by the teacher and, thus, she will not feel anxious.