Relationship Between Language Anxiety And Linguistic Errors
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
Ability to use language appropriately makes communication effective and meaningful. However, anxiety can impact classroom communication negatively. This paper aims to contribute to the research on language anxiety (LA) by investigating the extent to which the trait contributes to linguistic errors during class presentations by students learning English as a second language. Students at secondary school are likely to experience some degree ofanxiety during language lessons. The current researchexplores the LA levels during class presentations and also interrogates the relationship between anxiety and the frequency of linguistic errors. The data on language anxiety levels was obtained through the participants filling a questionnaire adapted from the foreign language anxiety scale (FLAS). A voice recorder was used to record the class presentations from which linguistic errors that the learners’ made were isolated.Descriptive statistics and content analysis were used to analyse the data.The results indicate a weak negative correlation between the level of language anxiety and frequency of errors in the class presentations.
Authors and Affiliations
Elijah Chege Ndumia, Humphrey KirimiIreri
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