Exploring Foreign Language Anxiety and its Relationship with Grade Nine Students’ English Language Achievement
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
This study was designed to explore Foreign Language Anxiety and its Relationship with Grade Nine Students’ English Language Achievement at HawassaTabor,Yirgalem, and HawassaLangano Preparatory and Secondary Schools. The study was designed on quantitative basis.The participants of the study were 362 grade 9 students and they were selected randomly. Questionnaire and document analysis were employed as data collection instruments. The questionnaire designed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) was slightly modified and used for the study. The data was analysed with multiple analysis methods including descriptive statistics, chi-square test and ordinal logistic regression. The results of study revealed that there existed different levels of foreign language anxiety in grade 9 students at Hawassa Tabor, Yirgalem, and HawassaLangano Preparatory and Secondary Schools. Of the sample subjects, 6.6 % of the subjects showed high level foreign language anxiety, 77.1 % showed medium-level foreign language anxiety and 16.3 % showed low level of foreign language anxiety. Among the four categories of foreign language classroom anxiety scale, communication apprehension (SD= 0.61) and general English classroom anxiety (SD=056) were the most anxiety type the participants experienced most. Second, there was no strong relation between foreign language anxiety and residence of students(P value=0.739>0.05); however, majority of urban students have lower anxiety level than rural students. Third, there was strong relationship between foreign language anxiety and students’ sex; that is female students experienced more anxiety than male students (F=0.62SD and M= SD0.60). Meanwhile, ordinal logistic regression analysis showed foreign language anxiety and English language achievements were negatively correlated especially for high and low anxiety levels. On the other hand, medium anxiety level and average achievement had direct relation (P Value=0.000<0.05).
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Achame Haile, Abebe Tilahun
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