Learners’ anxiety in audiographic conferences: a discursive psychology approach toemotion talk

Success and failure in language learning are partly determined by the learners’ ability toregulate their emotions. Negative feelings are more likely to frustrate progress, while positiveones make the task of learning a second language (L2) a more effective experience. To dateno significant body of research has been carried out into the role of anxiety in the field ofcomputer-assisted language learning (CALL). The present study adopts discursive psychology(DP) as its methodological approach to examine anxiety not as a psychological state, but as asocial construct in the context of an audiographic conferencing tool. After interviewing asample of learners of Spanish at the Open University (OU), our findings reveal a strongconnection between emotion and learner beliefs