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Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific Purposes…
Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) students
1 Introduction - research evedence on
FLA
MacIntyre (1999: 27) - describes FLA as a feeling when pupils experience while speaking in their target language.
Horwitz (1986: 128) - describes language learning as a individual procedure for each pupil, so it unites in itself complicated emotions which can prevent from being a successful learner.
Pelligrino (2005: 7) - learners re- discovery themselves when they learn a second language or they obtain a second identity as a language carier.
FLA is the biggest hinder from acquiring a language (Horwitz, 2001; Krashen, 1985; Pavlenko, 2011; Phillips, 1992).
There positive and negative effects of FLA (Bailey, 1995; Dörnyei, 2005; Spielman & Radnofsky, 2001).
Horwitz et al., (1986) created FLCAS to measure the degree of anxiety through speaking and listening.
FLA
has three types:
1 Communication apprehension - to be afraid of speaking in the public.
2 Test anxiety - fear about failure
3 Negative evaluation - students afraid of being judged negatively.
3 Method
Participants: 67 students of University of the
Balearic Islands.
Instrument and data collection:A closed questionary
4 Results and discussion
Difference across University degree programms
Philology students - lower than biology students
Level of FLA
26,6 % - high anxiety level
31,1 %- low anxiety
44,3 - average anxiety
Students percieved proficiency and FLA le vel
The more knowledgeable the studenst, the lower the level of FLA.
The less knowledgeable the students, the higher the level of FLA.
Source of FLA
test anxiety - the least effect
Negative evaluation - second highest anxiety
Communication apprehension - first highest anxiety
Difference across gender
No significance difference
5 conclusion
FLA effects speaking.
The highest FLA is Communication apprehension.
71,9% students feel average FLA.
2 Research questions
Purpose:
To explore the effect of FLA among Esp students
Questions
Level of FLA
FLA source
Difference across University Degree programs
Differences across gender
Correlation between FLA level and real knowledge