Journal of Education & Social Policy ISSN 2375-0782 (Print) 2375-0790 (Online) Vol. 1, No. 2; December 2014 115 The Effect of Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence on Students’ Learning Process Sara Hashempour Faculty of Human Ecology Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 43400 Aida Mehrad Faculty of Human Ecology Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 43400 Abstract A lot of teachers don’t know what exactly anxiety and emotional intelligenceare and how they can impact on student’s learning. Academic Anxiety will be happened amongst students when they feel intense worry about upcoming and previous incidence, too much self-concern and high focus on acting proficiently or they motivate by various items. Students with high level of anxiety most of the time misinterpreted or overstated the importance of the situation. If the situation is not managed correctly negative consequences may happen. In addition, students that show emotional intelligence toward different items can growth their skills in educational situation. Various expressions have been used to describe experience of emotional intelligence and academic anxiety. This study, talk over the relation of those terms associated with characterizing and conceptualizing of working memory, emotional intelligence and learning process. Keywords:Anxiety, Emotional intelligence, Working Memory, Student’s learning 1.1. Introduction Anxiety is a natural human reaction, and it works as an important psychological function that is felt by many people regardless of age. All children experience anxiety as an alarm system that is activated whenever they perceive situation as dangerous, embarrassing or stressful, in these situations anxiety can help them to better manage the events, while low and controllable level of anxiety can be beneficial, high level of anxiety may negatively impact one’s social and personal relationships, and cause physical and emotional problems. (Herrero, Sandi,&Venero, 2006). In learning context anxiety can affect the ability of receiving information, its processing, and retrieving it when it’s necessary (Tobias, 1983). Students with anxiety often experience high and uncontrollable worry about events which accrued in past or may be happened in future, they experience extreme worry about performing completely well, meanwhile they are so self- consciousness and often misinterpreted or overstated the importance of the condition (Vanin, 2008); all of these can negatively impact on learning and information processing via its influences on working memory, leading to poorer academic performances, school dropout or underachievement in school; Finally it can predict significant problems in child life which may do not recover easily (Bigdeli, 2010; Hughes, Lourea-Waddell, & Kendall, 2008; Van Ameringen, Mancini, &Farvolden, 2003).Meanwhile, Emotions have effect full role in motivate of abilities of individuals and improve the process of learning in various fields, especially among student which has strong link with anxiety. Understanding the effect of anxiety on student’s emotional intelligence, their working memory and learning process is crucial for teachers to increase their awareness about the effect of student’s anxiety on their learning process.