The Importance Of Foreign Language Skills

foreign language. In fact, FLA has negative outcomes on the four language skills in general, and on learners, in specific. However, it is worthy for consideration that there were considerable theoretical studies looking at anxiety and specific language skills, in which the emphasis was mainly on second language (L2) speaking. 2.1.1 FL Anxiety in the Listening Skill
FLLs are facing a big sufferance when listening to foreign language. In this regard, Krashen (1982) claimed that when listening or attempting to extract the message from messages in L2 was the major procedure in the evolution of a second language, in this juncture; he supposed that anxiety formed an “affective filter (Krashen, 1980, cited in Young, 1991) and he added that it interfered with someone 's capability to receive and treat oral or verbal messages successfully.
Another study conducted by Horwitz et al., (1986) pointed out that a lot of students were …show more content…
In this regard, Anderson (1999) stated that reading is a significance skill for students in order to have a good command of a second/foreign language. For FLLs, it is very important to develop such a skill because according to researchers when reading, the reader should make use of his prior knowledge and linguistic knowledge in order to extract the writer 's intended meaning. In this regard, Cook (1989) claimed that in order to make sense of any text we need to have pre-existant knowledge of the world. However, when the foreign language reader is anxious, he felt overwhelmed ; he cannot comprehend what is implied in the printed material, especially ; when he is reading a cultural text that implies aspects which are unknown to him. Such learners tended to translate every word when approaching a text and many felt anxious when they came across unknown grammatical structures. (Saito et al., 1999, pp. 202-218, as cited in Maatar, 2010,