Mindfulness: How to Tame the Language Anxiety of Foreign Language Students and to Encourage Them to Live Mindfully? Cover Image

Mindfulness: jak oswoić lęk językowy studentów języków obcych i zachęcić ich do uważnego życia?
Mindfulness: How to Tame the Language Anxiety of Foreign Language Students and to Encourage Them to Live Mindfully?

Author(s): Marzena Blachowska-Szmigiel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: mindfulness; mindful life; language anxiety; student of foreign languages

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the possibilities of employing mindfulness in order to support a foreign language student in developing the competence to deal with language anxiety and to strengthen a sense of psychological well-being in the face of the contra-dictory challenges of modern times. First, the author describes the difficult situation of a contemporary student of foreign languages who functions in two axiologically contradictory realities: fluid modernity and crystallized university reality. Then the issue of language anxiety is discussed, and finally the author presents the concepts of the mindfulness program in foreign philology.

  • Issue Year: 2/2021
  • Issue No: XXIII
  • Page Range: 103-114
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish