Abstract
Business English (BE) language characteristics and many classroom teaching factors contribute to the anxiety of BE learning. The ecology can be put in use into BE teaching to make the ecological classroom. This research is taken to show relations between the ecological classroom teaching of BE (BEECT) and BE learning anxiety (BELA). The findings are as followed: 1) BEECT is in good order and students’ BELA is to the intermediate degree; 2) BELA has the generally negative correlation to students’ general English proficiency; 3) BEECT has the higher negative correlation to BELA, and they are significantly linearly dependent; 4) as to BELA, significant statistical differences exist between high score group and low score group in the classroom learning efficiency, the teacher-student affective intercommunication, and student-student intercommunication. In order to lower BELA, BE teachers are suggested cultivating learners’ academic English proficiency, strengthening learners’ ambiguity tolerance, and using ecologically multimodal discourses.
Highlights
Business English is a branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
The relationship between BEECT and Business English Learning Anxiety (BELA); multiple regression analysis was used to determine the predictive power of BEECT over BELA; 3) Independent samples t-tests were carried out to check the differences between HSG and LSG
Negative correlation means if variable A is increasing, variable B is decreasing
Summary
Business English is a branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). At present, in China, English for General Purposes (EGP) and ESP coexist in college English teaching system (Wen, 2014: pp. 1-8). A Study of Business English (ESP) Learning Anxiety from the Perspective of Ecology. 141-143) gave a comparative study of the anxiety between ESP and EGP learning On their bases, this study, from a new perspective, is to discuss the BE learning anxiety in the ecological environment of classroom. This study, from a new perspective, is to discuss the BE learning anxiety in the ecological environment of classroom It is guided by the following research questions. 2. Literature Review of the Ecological Classroom Teaching of Business English (BEECT) and Business English Learning Anxiety (BELA). The higher the level of TAL is, the lower the level of anxiety is
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