Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific purposes (ESP) students

Amengual-Pizarro, Marian

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Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific purposes (ESP) students

dc.contributor.author	Amengual-Pizarro, Marian
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-21T09:38:29Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-21T09:38:29Z
dc.date.created	2018
dc.date.issued	2019-01-21
dc.description.abstract	This study aims at exploring the degree of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) towards the learning of English that English for Sp ecific Purposes students report e xperiencing. The participants in this study were 67 undergraduates at the University of the Balearic Islands enrolled in two university degree programs. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz, Howitz & Cope , 1986) was used to collect data. The findings reveal that most students suffered from average to high anxiety levels. Communication apprehensio n was found to be the main source of participants’ FLA followed by fear of negative evaluation and test anxiety. The data also showed statistically significant differences across students’ university degree programs related to test anxiety and fear of nega tive e valuation. N o statistically significant gender differenc es in FLA levels were observed. Finally, corre lation analyses revealed significant negative associations between participants’ self - perceived English proficiency an d their FLA levels associated with listening and speaking skills	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	15	es
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/66706
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Journal English Studies, Vol. 18(2), 2018	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	ESP students	es
dc.subject	Foreign Language Anxiety	es
dc.subject	Foreign language learning	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas	es
dc.title	Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific purposes (ESP) students	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es