This thesis investigates the notion of language anxiety by examining language anxiety rates of Croatian high-school students. Language anxiety is considered to be a complex phenomenon specific to the language learning context and has thus been extensively researched over the last few decades. The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of language anxiety experienced by high-school students in their Croatian Language and English as a Foreign Language Classrooms. More specifically, the purpose was to examine the differences between language anxiety factors in these two languages as well as to examine the relationship between language anxiety and the independent variables of the perceived self-image and gender