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ow for a moment of vulnerability: I Nhad anxiety with speaking French in front of my students. As a non-native speaker and teacher of French, my greatest level of anxiety was in speaking the language with native speakers. The mere notion that native French speakers might mistake I made conjured notice every up a sense of anxiety, coupled with fear of misunderstanding their spoken word. After taking several trips to France (and being understood!), this feeling has slightly subsided. But as a classroom teacher, I initially felt self-conscious when speaking in front of my French foreign language teacher colleagues. My affective filter definitely needed lowering! SH In her seminal research, Elaine Horwitz (1986) develon