LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:9 September 2016
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Role of Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety in Majoring and
Non-majoring English Language Learners
A Comparative Study

Mari Nargis and Lohar Shoukat Ali

Abstract

The current study was conducted to investigate foreign language classroom anxiety among students who are studying English as their major subject and those who are studying English as their non-major subject. Three components of anxiety as communication apprehension, test anxiety, fear of negative evaluation were measured. Participants of the study were 23 students from Institute of English Language and Literature University of Sindh Jamshoro, studying as majoring subject and 23 students studying as non-majoring subject from Department of Public Administration, University of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh Pakistan. Students took part in the study voluntarily and were provided a questionnaire adopted from Horwitz & Cope (1986) on Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety based on five point Likert scale. The result of the studying indicates majoring learners more effected by foreign language classroom anxiety in comparison of non-majoring learners.

Keywords: Speaking anxiety, test anxiety, fear of negative evaluation

Introduction

The present study is designed to explain the foreign language classroom anxiety. Since anxiety is a major obstacle between learners and his target. This study examines communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation and demonstrates the negative effects of the anxiety on majoring learners and non-majoring English learners. Though there is much study done in context of language anxiety in Pakistan but there is a significant need to highlight the anxiety and anxiety related problems at university level in Sindh Pakistan. Consequently, it provides a clear image of negative effect of speaking anxiety among undergraduate learners to English language teachers in general and to Pakistani researchers in particular and language teacher in general.

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Mari Nargis
MS Scholar at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro
Sindh
Pakistan
mari_nargis@yahoo.com

Lohar Shoukat Ali
Assisstent Professor at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro
Sindh
Pakistan
Shoukat.ali@faculty.muet.edu.pk
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