English Class Anxiety in Relation to Second Language Productive Competency of Students in Agriculture
Keywords:
anxiety, second language, competency, students in agricultureAbstract
This study intends to find out the relationship between English class anxiety and second language productive competency level of 103 Agriculture students of Jose Rizal Memorial State University, School Year 2011–2012. The study revealed that students were anxious in their English classes which varied significantly between male and female students but with no significant variation in terms of year level and campus. The students’ English class anxiety did not hinder them in performing very well in the second language productive competency in terms of speaking and writing, where highly anxious students, however, performed less than the anxious ones.
References
Gardner, R. and MacIntyre, P. (2006). Language Learning. Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada NGA 5C2.
Horwitz, Elaine (2008). Becoming a Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Language Learning and Teaching‖ National Taiwan Normal University, University of Texas at Austin. Blackwell Publishers, Inc.
_________(2004). ―Relationship Between Practical Work Activities and Students‘ Performance and Attitude in the Teaching of Mathematics IV Secondary Education‖. Unpublished Master‘s Thesis. Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Dapitan City
_________(2005). Language Anxieties Vis-à-vis the Communicative Abilities Among College Freshmen Students of Jose Rizal Memorial State College, Main Campus, Dapitan City: Basis for a Functional Learning Kit. Unpublished Master‘s Thesis. Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Dapitan City.
Kondo, David S. and Ling, Yang Y. (2004). Strategies for Coping with Language Anxiety: The Case of Students of English in Japan. ELT Journal Volume 58/3 July 2004 © Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 19, 2012 from http://203.72.145.166/ELT/files/58-3-5.pdf
Kondo, Yusuke (2010). A Study on Relationship Between Language Anxiety and Proficiency: In a Case of Japanese Learners of English. Retrieved February 19, 2012 from http://www.paaljapan.org/resources/proceedings/PAAL10/pdfs/kondo.pdf
Piniel, Katalin. (2006). Foreign language classroom anxiety: A classroom perspective. In M. Nikolov & J. Horváth (Eds.), UPRT 2006: Empirical Studies in English applied linguistics (pp. 39-58). Pécs: Lingua Franca Csoport. Retrieved February 18, 2012 from
http://www.pte.hu/uprt/1.3%20Piniel.pdf
Yapar, Taner (2008). To Assess Speaking Analytically or Holistically. Retrieved May 11, 2011 from http://www.ealta.eu.org/conference/2008/docs/friday/Yapar.pdf
Yavuz, Fatih et. al. (2011). Test Anxiety in Foreign Language Learning. Retrieved December 7, 2011 from
http://w3.balikesir.edu.tr/~saydin/index_dosyalar/c9s16m8.pdf
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2013 The Treshhold
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
