Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Insights -- 2. An Overview of Language Anxiety Research and Trends in its Development -- 3. On the Misreading of Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) and the Need to Balance Anxiety Research and the Experiences of Anxious Language Learners -- Part 2: Empirical Investigations -- 4. Anxiety and L2 Self-Images: The 'Anxious Self' -- 5. Are Perfectionists More Anxious Foreign Language Learners and Users? -- 6. Social Anxiety and Silence in Japan's Tertiary Foreign Language Classrooms -- 7. Do You See What I Feel? An Idiodynamic Assessment of Expert and Peer's Reading of Nonverbal Language Anxiety Cues -- 8. Towards an Ecological Understanding of Language Anxiety -- 9. Exploring the Relationship between Anxiety and Advanced Hungarian EFL Learners' Communication Experiences in the Target Language: A Study of High- vs Low-Anxious Learners -- Part 3: Implications for Practice -- 10. Anxious Language Learners Can Change Their Minds: Ideas and Strategies from Traditional Psychology and Positive Psychology -- 11. The Links Between Self-Esteem and Language Anxiety and Implications for the Classroom -- 12. Conclusion -- Index