Emotional intelligence, as concerned with how an individual recognizes and regulates his or her emotions, has been in limelight quite recently. The present study seeks to fill a small gap in the literature on emotional intelligence, together with foreign language anxiety and empathy. To this end, short literary readings are used in a cognitive-affective reading-based course to see how emotional...

Abstract Language anxiety plays a key role in language learners’ silent behaviors class (King, 2013). Given its public nature and emphasis on interaction within it, the classroom context significant production of anxiety. Anxious people are more likely to negatively appraise situations, affecting their behavior. That is, it is not just subject content that causes anxiety, also cognitive process...