Though foreign language anxiety is widely recognized as a mental block against foreign language learning and conceived as its obvious factor, yet there are many inconsistent concepts mixing psychological and linguistic perspectives. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to present a systematic linguistic classification of the subtypes of foreign language anxiety.
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