Foreign Language Anxiety among Counseling Students Speaking English as a Second Language: A Rationale for Future Research

Research on foreign language anxiety has focused primarily on students in language training programs. The lack of attention to foreign language anxiety among counseling students speaking English as a second language has led to supervision issues among this growing student population in counseling programs. This article identifies areas such as self-efficacy and microskills that are affected by foreign language anxiety and recommends training strategies and the potential value of qualitative research methods to address the situation. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.