Abstract:Anxiety is one of the affective factors that most pervasively obstruct the learning process. So how to reduce students’ language anxiety in English teaching is an urgent and important issue. This Thesis was based on the questionnaire and class observation to study the current situation of communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation during students’ English learning. At the same time, by the questionnaire and interview, this thesis studied the current circumstance of English teaching. The study show that high level of communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation exist in students, in which communication apprehension ranks first; teachers realize the importance of language anxiety on English learning, but in the real teaching they don’t take appropriate measures to reduce students’ anxiety. At last, based on the findings, this thesis put forward some suggestions in terms of teaching and learning to reduce students’ anxiety.

Key words: anxiety; English teaching; English learning; suggestions

中文摘要:焦虑是对英语学习具有巨大负面影响的情感因素之一。因此，如何减轻语言学习焦虑在英语教学中是一个迫切而且重要的问题。本文通过问卷调查和观察法，研究学生在英语学习过程中交际焦虑，考试焦虑及负评价焦虑的现状。本文同时以问卷调查和访谈的方式研究了思茅三中英语教学的情况。研究显示，学生存在着较高交际、考试和负评价焦虑，其中交际焦虑最为严重；英语教师已经认识到焦虑对英语学习的重要性，但在实际教学中，他们还没有采取适当的措施减轻学生的焦虑。最后，针对研究发现，作者从教和学的角度提出了一些帮助学生减轻焦虑的建议。

关键词：焦虑；英语教学；英语学习；建议