... • Test anxiety An understanding of test anxiety is also important to the discussion of foreign language anxiety. Text anxiety, as explained by Horwitz et al. (1986), refers to a type of anxiety ... from a fear of failure. Test anxiety is quite common in language classroom at any levels. Unfortunately, for highly anxious students, second/foreign languages, more than any other academic subject, ... chair. When I am in my Spanish class I just freeze! I can’t think of any thing when my teacher calls on me. My mind goes blank.” This suggests that any measure to treat language anxiety should not...