Anxiety, Frustration, and Bad Experiences When Learning a Foreign Language Interfering in the Oral Production of a Teenager: A Case Study

Abstract

Learning a language involves more than willingness and effort; it also involves emotions, good and bad experiences, and the effects of all of them in the production of all four skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Sadly, emotions and mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, and overthinking are put aside when learning a language. Mental disorders should have a stronger recognition in learning a language, those can affect the production of the language, therefore; the learners might feel frustrated for not achieving their expected goals in the language.