This book presents an in-depth study of Taiwanese university English as a foreign language(EFL) learners feelings of anxiety during a short-term study abroad (SA) programme. The four individual case analyses in this book illustrate that anxiety is a symptom of identity conflict, dependent on contextual factors and is always fluctuating. Such a view of anxiety is rarely present in existing literature. The findings also show that various social factors made the students experience identity conflict during the SA programme, which in turn caused anxiety and so impaired their access to ...