Empirical Research on Foreign Language Learning Anxiety of College Students from Different Subject Areas

By using the Howitz Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), 242 undergraduates of grades 2012 and 2013 from agriculture, engineering, science, and arts, in Jilin Agricultural University were investigated. The collected data from a questionnaire survey were used for descriptive and correlation analysis on the different dimensions of anxiety using SPSS (11.0) software package, aiming at doing research on different degrees of English learning anxiety of college students from different subject areas and their correlation. The research result shows that the engineering students have the highest level of anxiety, and the science students have the lowest level of anxiety; the students of different subject areas have very significant differences in the classroom anxiety dimension and test anxiety dimension. The study will be helpful to foreign language teaching reform.