Title: Foreign language anxiety and English achievement in Taiwanese undergraduate English-major students: an empirical study
Abstract: This paper investigated the effect of foreign language anxiety on Taiwanese university students’ English achievement. To understand the perplexing nature of foreign language anxiety which Taiwanese students may have, this study aims to contribute to the limited literature examining the psychological reactions to language anxiety in Taiwanese undergraduate English-major students. This study employed a survey design that involved the collection of quantitative data to answer the research question. A total of 101 undergraduate English-major students participated in this study. Results of the present study suggested that Group A students (the students whose English achievement fall in the top 1/3 of all participants) experienced lower levels of foreign language anxiety than Group B students (the students whose English achievement fall in the middle 1/3 of all participants) and Group C students (the students whose English achievement fall in the bottom 1/3 of all participants), while Group B students had less foreign language anxiety than Group C stduents. The results highlighted that foreign language anxiety is an important predictor of university English-major students’ English achievement. This study also presented an insight for foreign language educators to further understand students and help them through their anxiety. It is hoped that increasing and extensive knowledge of foreign language anxiety will help both university EFL instructors and EFL learners. Ultimately, the empirical findings of the current study will have a beneficial impact on the students affected by foreign language anxiety.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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