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Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific Purposes…
Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) students
Study questionnaire
Spanish version of FLCAS ( to assess general foreign language anxiety)
provide self-ratings of their profeciency
to collect background information (age, sex,...)
Indication of descriptive statistics
feel more anxiety
experience lower level of FLA
motivated to attend the class
experienced significantly lower degree of anxiety
less motivated to attend the class
feel more sure and relaxed
Three interrelated types of speaking anxiety
Test anxiety (fear of failure)
Negative judgment ( fear of negative evaluation)
Communication apprehension ( fear of communication)
Effect
Detrimental
Face saving
Avoidance behaviour
Minor physical symptoms
Positive
Drowing a distinction between benificials vs debilitating anxiety
Research evidence on
FLA
MacIntyre (1999: 27) - worry & negative emotional reactions
Pelligrino - to learn a foreign language is to redifine yourself publicly
Horwitz (1986: 128) - distinct complex construct of self-perception
Philology students:
Biology students