Empowering Counseling Trainees with Foreign Language Anxiety: A Strengths-Based Relational-Cultural Approach

ABSTRACT

Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is an under-addressed concern for non-native English speaking (L2) counseling trainees in U.S. counselor training programs. We review the literature on FLA, discuss its negative impact on counselor self-efficacy (CSE), and detail a peer-led support group grounded in Relational Cultural Theory (RCT) to address L2 counseling trainees’ FLA.

KEYWORDS:

• Foreign language anxiety
• counseling self-efficacy
• relational cultural theory
• creativity in counseling

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