| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| ENGLISH ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1．1 Background | 第12-14页 |
| 1．2 Research questions | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two: Foreign language anxiety and its sources | 第16-30页 |
| 2．1 Definitions | 第16-19页 |
| 2．1．1 Psychological perspectives | 第16-18页 |
| 2．1．2 Second-language-learning perspectives | 第18-19页 |
| 2．2 Foreign language anxiety and foreign language learning | 第19-25页 |
| 2．2．1 Positive relationship | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2．2 Negative relationship | 第21-22页 |
| 2．2．3 Other views in debate | 第22-25页 |
| 2．3 Foreign language anxiety and school environment | 第25-30页 |
| 2．3．1 School Effects | 第25-27页 |
| 2．3．2 School Belonging | 第27-28页 |
| 2．3．3 The Classroom | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three: Anxiety-an important affective variable in foreign language learning | 第30-49页 |
| 3．1 Affective elements in foreign language learning | 第30-33页 |
| 3．1．1 Definition of affect | 第30-31页 |
| 3．1．2 The role affective elements play in foreign language learning | 第31-33页 |
| 3．2 Language anxiety as one of the affective components in foreign language learning | 第33-42页 |
| 3．2．1 Measurement of language anxiety | 第34-35页 |
| 3．2．2 Aspects of language anxiety | 第35-42页 |
| 3．3 Previous researches | 第42-46页 |
| 3．3．1 Suggestive findings | 第43-45页 |
| 3．3．2 Conflictive findings | 第45-46页 |
| 3．4 Towards a theoretical synthesis | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Four: The comparative study of foreign language anxiety of high school students | 第49-66页 |
| 4．1 Instrument and objectives | 第49-51页 |
| 4．2 Procedures | 第51-53页 |
| 4．3 Analysis | 第53-62页 |
| 4．4 Results and discussions | 第62-66页 |
| 4．4．1 Foreign language anxiety level on school students | 第62-63页 |
| 4．4．2 Correlation between English test performance and anxiety level | 第63-64页 |
| 4．4．3 School and gender differences | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusions | 第66-72页 |
| 5．1 Implications | 第66-71页 |
| 5．1．1 Awareness of foreign language anxiety | 第66-67页 |
| 5．1．2 Affective techniques to alleviate debilitating feelings | 第67-68页 |
| 5．1．3 Innovative approaches | 第68-69页 |
| 5．1．4 Student-oriented approaches | 第69-71页 |
| 5．2 Limitations of the study | 第71页 |
| 5．3 Further research possibilities | 第71-72页 |
| Appendixes | 第72-77页 |
| References | 第77-90页 |
