Foreign language enjoyment and speaking anxiety in the classroom are two potential emotion-inducing factors for foreign language learning. This sequential mixed methods study investigated whether and to what extent Iranian EFL students experienced foreign language enjoyment and public speaking anxiety in their English classrooms, and how they characterize the sources of the enjoyment and speaki...

Fear of public speaking is very common, but we know little about its implications for individuals and organizations. We establish aversion as an economically relevant preference using three steps. First, use laboratory classroom experiments to show that preferences in vary strongly across with many participants willing give up significant amounts money avoid giving a short presentation front au...