LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:5 May 2016
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Language Anxiety over EFL/ESL Oral exam/test Performance:
A View from Language Classrooms at
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro Sindh, Pakistan

Nargis Mari, M.S. Scholar

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to highlight second/foreign language classroom anxiety over EFL/ESL oral exam/test performance at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. Study was based on quantitative approach. Participants of the study were 227 students, who were selected randomly. Students were given a questionnaire to answer, adopted by Horwitz and Cope (1987) based on five point Likert Scale. Scale is basically designed to measure Communicative Apprehension, Test/Exam Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation, while in this study in order to measure oral Exam/Test performance, the second portion of the Scale "Test/Exam Anxiety" was followed. Moreover the findings of the study concluded that a moderate level of anxiety was prevalent among undergraduates of MUET firstly. Secondly, findings of the study concluded that MUET undergraduates have moderate level of anxiety worrying how they could achieve good grades in each exam. Consequently findings of the study also direct us towards affective assessment of learners at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.

Keywords: Test/Exam Anxiety, speaking anxiety, oral performance, self-confidence, Communicative Apprehension

Introduction

The present study is designed to explain the foreign language classroom anxiety over EFL/ESL Oral exam/test Performance. Since anxiety is a major obstacle between learners and their target. This study examines communication apprehension to determine language anxiety over EFL/ESL oral exam/test performance of undergraduates at MUET Jamshoro. Though there is much study done in the context of language anxiety in Pakistan, there is a significant need to highlight the anxiety and anxiety related problems at the university level in Sindh, Pakistan. Consequently, it provides a clear image of speaking anxiety during oral performance among undergraduate learners, to Pakistani researchers in particular and language teachers in general.

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Nargis Mari, M.S. Scholar
Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
mari_nargis@yahoo.com
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