A Study on Language Anxiety in Cross-cultural Adaptation—A Case Study of Chinese Exchange Students at the University of Alcalá

This study used a mixed method (N=50 Chinese exchange students +5 Spanish teachers) to explore the mechanism of language anxiety and cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students in the Spanish classroom. With the increase in the number of foreign students going to the West, language anxiety has become the core obstacle to adaptation. Grammatical differences (such as verb conjugation) and cultural conflicts (such as the contradiction between