Abstract
The present study aims to find out the anxiety of Chinese EFL learners as well as its relationship with self-efficacy in the online learning environment. A total of 492 Chinese college students from different regions participated in the research. The data obtained from the questionnaire survey were submitted to SPSS version 25.0 to do analysis. The results revealed that: (1) most English learners have a relatively high level anxiety toward online learning under the special pandemic situation, and the anxiety varies among students of different academic years; (2) there is a weak negative correlation between learning anxiety and self-efficacy (3) Anxiety affects self-efficacy in a negative way. More specifically, teaching mode and external environment have a significantly negative effect on self-efficacy.
Highlights
The network has created various forms of life, work and study with the rapid development of information technology
The present study aims to find out the anxiety of Chinese EFL learners as well as its relationship with self-efficacy in the online learning environment
The results revealed that: (1) most English learners have a relatively high level anxiety toward online learning under the special pandemic situation, and the anxiety varies among students of different academic years; (2) there is a weak negative correlation between learning anxiety and self-efficacy (3) Anxiety affects self-efficacy in a negative way
Summary
The network has created various forms of life, work and study with the rapid development of information technology. The educational institutions begin to use online teaching mode. 2020, Vol 12, No 6 situation, many universities makes great efforts in building their own college English network teaching platform, college English online learning center, and targeted development of network teaching resources (Lu & Ren, 2012). Due to the continuous development of the pandemic situation in 2020, online class has become an indispensable part of teaching and learning. It is undoubtedly the best way to study in the special situation and abundant online resources can better help students strengthen learning. What’s more, online learning inclines to be influenced by other external factors, such as network connections and students' computer operation levels. Those factors usually cause learning anxiety, which can lead to the decline of self-efficacy. Emotion plays a very important role in language learning
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