International Students Experience Foreign Language Anxiety:Case data from galvanic skin response

摘要

This experiment utilized video clips and electrodermal activity (GSR) to explore the subject's foreign language anxiety during mathematical operations in two different languages. A single case multiple baseline design was performed with a postgradu-ate who used English as a foreign language. Physiological measures indicated that international students experienced foreign lan-guage anxiety intensely even though they were familiar with the knowledge being tested. And the independent-samples test shows that there exist significant differences in the two types of working memory capacity tasks involving mathematical contents . Further research could focus on individual differences, including demographic variables (the number of subjects, gender) and psychological variables (anxiety traits), to figure out what kind of ways may really suitable for international students'learning.