“…Respondents in previous research also mentioned their favourable attitudes towards the language anxiety in their English learning (e.g., Trang, Baldauf & Moni, 2013). However, the fact that the majority of respondents (5 out of 7) in this study held a negative attitude towards their anxiety elaborates on the findings claimed by Trang et al (2013), which echoes the pervasive harmful functions of anxiety indicated by a great deal of studies (e.g., Aida, 1994;Chen & Lin, 2009;Elkhafaifi, 2005;MacIntyre & Doucette, 2010;MacIntyre & Gardner, 1994a;Pappamihiel, 2002;Sellers, 2000;Woodrow, 2006;Yan & Horwitz, 2008).…”