Book Review: Young children’s foreign language anxiety: The case of South Korea by Kiaer, Morgan-Brown, and Choi

enrolled in either English immersion institutions or regular kindergartens. The results reveal that Korean and English language abilities of children in English immersion institutions are higher compared to those in regular kindergartens. However, the children in the fi rst group report a higher level of FLA. The authors caution that the long duration of exposure to English every week may not explain the FLA levels of children in English immersion institutions. While doing so, they demon-strate that children who speak Korean freely during English classes in kindergartens have lower levels of FLA. They report that the levels of FLA among children in English immersion institutions are affected by individual characteristics including impulsiveness, age in months, English and Korean abilities but not by family or institutional variables. As a result, they lay a