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BSTRACT. Foreign language anxiety is “the feeling of tension and apprehension specifically associated with second language contexts, including speaking, listening, and learning” (MacIntyre and Gardner 1994a: 284). According to researchers, it manifests itself in two types of emotional reactions: positive (positive anxiety) and negative (debilitating anxiety) (Łuszczyńska 2017). The focus of this article is to explore debilitating language anxiety of students learning French as a foreign language and to find out its level in the first, second and third years of undergraduate studies in Romance philology. The main research problem concerns the need to develop their ability to manage the debilitating language anxiety. For this purpose, the findings of the FLCAS questionnaire are presented.References
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