Foreign language anxiety and the digital classroom; How social media and the digitalised classroom affects student anxiety levels in upper secondary vocational studies.

This thesis examines foreign language anxiety’s impact on upper secondary vocational students in Norwegian schools. This study is a continuation of previous research on foreign language anxiety and attempts to offer new insight into how social media and the digital classroom may affect student anxiety levels. The study examined twenty-eight students in two different classes and consisted of a questionnaire, eleven interviews, and responses to Horwitz et al. (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The thesis attempts to use these three investigatory modes to understand how the modern, digitally saturated classroom impacts student anxiety. This study aims to answer three rese…