Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is a negative emotional reaction that many migrant English as a foreign language (EFL) learners encounter when learning or using English in a host society. Using Linguistic Ethnography (LE), we investigate how four migrant adult EFL learners in Australia (1) experience the negative emotional reactions of FLA such as “forgetfulness”, “feelings of isolation”, and “self-avoidance”, as well as strong emotional outbursts such as crying and weeping; and (2) how the use of translanguaging may correspondingly work as emotional safe spaces to mitigate these negative reactions of FLA. The implications of this study show the importance of safe educational and emotional spaces for migrant background EFL learners, where such spaces can allow EFL learners to authentically share their lived experiences, problems, and emotional expressions through translanguaging, which can assist in the alleviation of the negative emotional reactions of FLA.

外语焦虑 (FLA) 是许多移民英语作为外语 (EFL) 学习者在东道国学习或使用英语时遇到的一种负面情绪反应。使用语言民族志 (LE)，我们调查了澳大利亚的四名移民成年 EFL 学习者 (1) 如何体验 FLA 的负面情绪反应，例如“健忘”、“孤立感”和“自我回避”，以及强烈的情绪爆发，如哭泣和哭泣；(2) 跨语言的使用如何相应地作为情感安全空间来减轻 FLA 的这些负面反应。这项研究的意义表明了安全的教育和情感空间对于移民背景的 EFL 学习者的重要性，这些空间可以让 EFL 学习者真实地分享他们的生活经历、问题、