The Effects of Foreign Language Anxiety Ganschow, et al. (1994) mentioned that anxiety is highly related to learners’ success or failure of foreign language learning. A lot of study also showed that anxiety can have facilitating and debilitating effects on foreign language learning (Scovel, 1978). Deblitative anxiety has negative effects on the language learning process and facilitative anxiety was one of the keys to success in language learning (Brown, 2007).