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ASSESSING VERBAL ENGLISH ANXIETY IN LEARNERS AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL FROM THE STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE: A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH |
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| Creator | Afsheen Salahuddin, Uzma Quraishi, Asma Shahid Kazi |
| Title | ASSESSING VERBAL ENGLISH ANXIETY IN LEARNERS AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL FROM THE STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVE: A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH |
| Contributor | - |
| Publisher | TuEngr Group |
| Publication Year | 2562 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 10 |
| Journal No. | 17 |
| Page no. | 10A17K: 1-10 |
| Keyword | English class, Interaction in English, Learner's conversational skill, Communicative activities, English unease |
| URL Website | http://tuengr.com/Vol10_17.html |
| Website title | ITJEMAST V10(17) 2019 @ TuEngr.com |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | Like other countries, Pakistan is struggling for an ideal model for English language teaching in their educational institute. The English language is developing as a persuasive mode of interaction. In Pakistan English language is the second language; therefore, verbal English unease is common in the learners. This research has been conducted in the city Lahore, Pakistan and it is mixed method research. Learners' views regarding the usage of the communicating behaviors for the advancement of their verbal English skill were collected through the closed-ended questionnaire i.e. foreign language class unease scale developed by Elaine Horwitz (1987). It was a quasi-experimental pre-test post-test research. A whole group of forty learners was divided equally in one monitor group and two experimental groups. The research aimed to see the effect of the communicative activities on the learners' verbal English confidence level from the learners' perspective. This study investigated on many factors leading to unease among learners whilst they conversed in a foreign language. The results showed that communicative activities enhance confidence and reduce unease while speaking a foreign language. The research also pinpoints that the institutes that do not encourage their learners to interact in English language often have learners who do not have good conversational skills in English. The findings of the research have shown that the learners' confidence level in verbal English was enhanced when they were taught with the communicative activities in every English language class. Thus it is proposed that communicative activities should be incorporated in the English language classes. The research also recommends that the English language teachers should also be trained well in their verbal English skills. |
