外语焦虑是影响外语学习者个体差异的最重要因素之一。纵观七十多年的外语焦虑研究,它的研究范式大体有两种:内省研究和实证研究。后者是重要研究论述的主要范式,其研究内容主要为:外语焦虑与学业成绩呈负相关,极少部分认为二者无相关关系。 Foreign language anxiety is one of the most important factors affecting the individual differences of foreign language learners. Throughout the seventy years of foreign language anxiety research, there are two kinds of research paradigms: introspective and empirical research. The latter is the main paradigm of important research discourse. Its main contents are as follows: Foreign language anxiety is negatively correlated with academic achievement, and very few believe that there is no correlation between the two.