CONFIDENCE MASTERY AS THE FUNDAMENTAL TASK IN LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The aim of language learning is not only to achieve academic success carried out by fluent speaking and mastering the grammar and vocabulary, but is also to focus on psychological comfort of students to participate in their education - to receive and perform. Learners’ self-esteem plays the fundamental role in any language classroom. How students feel about learning is closely related to their ability to learn. The teachers’ task is thus not only to provide knowledge and information but also to immerse themselves into the student’s mind and discover the best way to awake the learner’s will to communicate. This paper focuses on two aspects that impact the emotional state of the learner, the academic and the psychological. The students of two different levels of English have answered the questionnaire assessing their attitude, anxiety and motivation towards learning English. Each opinion has been evaluated and put into relationships with the ability to relax, understand, learn and enjoy at the same time. Their (answers’) analyses have become the base of several teaching techniques that build and encourage students’ confidence as the main condition to start any cognitive process. Confidence mastery has thus played the fundamental role in the present survey.