Second language learning is a tiresome toil for many of its learners. The learning has an affective side along with cognition. English is a second, foreign, and business language for most of the countries in the world. This paper is a review of various studies conducted to analyze the role of Foreign Language Anxiety and Attitude on learning a foreign language and how it is related to other affective variables for impeding learning process. It comprises recent studies among students from different geographical locations. This review shed light on the fact that foreign language anxiety is a trait anxiety which hinders successful learning. The result is students struck somewhere in between the starting and proficient level of using that language. It also focuses some useful suggestions, educational implications along with further areas to conduct research. © Serials Publications.