ABSTRACT
The paper uses the research methodology of a literature review. It examines three aspects of music education learners’ anxiety, including the overview of anxiety, its manifestations and influences, and the ways to relieve it. The author attempts to fully understand anxiety and find appropriate ways to relieve it by analyzing these three issues. This review covers three types of learner anxiety: subject anxiety, test anxiety, and employment anxiety, and also investigates the root causes of these three types of anxiety. The author then discusses the various manifestations and influences of anxiety, as well as methods for relieving anxiety from three perspectives: school, family, and learners themselves. This review also identifies a problem in relieving learners’ anxiety: learners cannot rely solely on themselves to alleviate anxiety. Hence, they might not relieve anxiety well by themselves. There is also the importance of the help from schools and families. This paper will help music education learners and even more other music learners to better understand and relieve their anxiety. In the meantime, it will also help teachers to understand different anxieties that learners may have, so that they can better help them to relieve their anxiety and enhance their learning.
