In this research, academic achievement and anxiety towards foreign language in formal and distance English teaching were investigated. For this purpose, it was aimed to reveal the anxiety levels of foreign language concerns of the Formal and Distance Education students, to compare the levels of anxiety and to compare the academic achievements of the English language courses of Formal and Distance Education students. Pre-Posttest Control Group Model from experimental research designs was used in the research. Karasar explains that this design is chosen randomly and that one of the two groups whose initial similarity is unknown is chosen as the control group and the other test group. Within the scope of the study, data were collected by the application of two different measuring instruments. No statistically significant difference was found between the groups according to the Mann Whitney U test, which compared posttest results of the test and control groups. A significant difference was found in favor of the control group according to the Mann Whitney U test, in which the test and the control group gain score results were compared. It was also found low level and non-significant relationships between foreign language lesson anxiety and posttest achievement averages of test and control groups. The reason for the drop in the posttest scores of the students in the test group according to the pretest scores was that the pretest was done on the system within the framework of the related legislation and the students could have been helped by the pretest. For this reason, it is recommended to make changes in the legislation in order to prevent such copying and helping events in the distance education system, all the examinations should be done in the form of paper pens and in the physical environment of the registered program. Although the medium-level anxiety is desirable for the education sciences body literature, in this study, it was determined that middle-level anxiety is not a difference in terms of academic achievement. It is necessary to carry out more detailed studies on the causes of this situation.