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An Investigation on English Speaking Anxiety among EFL Vocational and Technical High School Students

Yıl 2023, , 81 - 94, 30.03.2023
https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.64770

Öz

The current study was carried out to determine which factors affect EFL vocational and technical high school students’ English-speaking anxiety and to make them self-evaluate their foreign language speaking anxiety, which affects their foreign language learning. For this purpose, vocational and technical high school students’ English-speaking anxiety and its relationship with the variables of gender, grade level, education level of parents and family income were investigated. To this end, the current study was designed in line with the general survey model. The population of the research consists of 387 students, who are in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade levels at three vocational and technical Anatolian high schools in a city in the Marmara Region in the 2019- 2020 academic year. A “Personal Information Form” prepared by the researchers and the “EFL Speaking Anxiety Scale” prepared by Hortwitz, Hortwitz & Cope (1986) and adapted to Turkish by Öztürk (2012) were used as the data collection tools in the current study. The results of the study revealed that while vocational and technical high school students’ English-speaking anxiety did not vary significantly depending on their grade level, parents' education level, family income, but varied significantly by gender. Accordingly, it was concluded that the female students studying at vocational and technical high schools have more English-speaking anxiety than the male students. Implications arising from these findings were also explained.

Kaynakça

  • Arslan, M. (2009). Türkiye’de yabancı dil edinim sorunu ve yabancı dil olarak Türkçe. In 1st International Symposium on Sustainable Development. 309.
  • Aydın, B. (1999). A study of sources of foreign language classroom anxiety in speaking and writing classes. (Unpublished doctoral thesis). Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Eskişehir.
  • Balemir, S. H. (2009). The sources of foreign language speaking anxiety and the relationship between proficiency level and the degree of foreign language speaking anxiety. (Unpublished master thesis). Bilkent Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara.
  • Baş, G. (2014). Lise öğrencilerinde yabancı dil öğrenme kaygısı: Nitel bir araştırma. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, (36), 101- 119.
  • Brown, H. D. (1994). Principles of language learning and teaching. London: Prentice Hall Regents.
  • Bygate, M. (1987). Speaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Durak, R. (2011). Araştırma yöntem ve teknikleri. (PowerPoint Slide). [Online] Available: https://atauni.edu.tr/yuklemeler/e6d32be6d3b1ad4dae5f6cc23165e2da.pdf (April, 29, 2020)
  • Demir Gençer, T. (2020). “An investigation of NLP – Based activities and their effects on language learners’ speaking anxiety: A case study”. (Unpublished master thesis). Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara.
  • Gardner, R. C. & MacIntyre, P. D. (1993). A student’s contributions to second language learning. Part II: Affective variables. Language Teaching, 26 (1), 1-11.
  • Hanbay, O. (2013). Çocuklara yabancı dil öğretimi. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık
  • Hortwitz, E.; Hortwitz, B., & Cope, J. (1986). Foreign language classroom anxiety, The Modern Language Journal, 70(3), 125-132.
  • Hortwitz, E. & Gregersen, T. (2002). Language learning and perfectionism: Anxious and non-anxious language learners’ reactions to their own oral performance, The Modern Language Journal, 86 (4), 562570.
  • Huang, H. (2004). The relationship between learning motivation and speaking anxiety among EFL nonEnglish major freshmen in Taiwan. (Unpublished master thesis). Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan.
  • İnceçay, V. & Yalçın, Ö. (2013). Foreign language speaking anxiety: The case of spontaneous speaking activities, 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES 2013. Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 116, 2620- 2624.
  • Juhana. (2012). Psychological factors that hinders students from speaking in english class (A case study in a senior high school in South Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia). Journal of Education and Practice, 3(12), 100-110.
  • Kavruk, H. & Deniz, E. (2015). Ortaokul öğrencilerinin konuşma kaygıları (Samsun ili örneği). Journal of Language and Literature Education. 3(15), 63-89.
  • Korkmaz, H. (2019). “English speaking anxiety level of fifth grade students in a middle school in Van”. (Unpublished master thesis). Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Bursa.
  • Kozikoğlu, İ., & Kanat, F. (2018). Lise öğrencilerinin ingilizce dersine katılım durumlarının ingilizce dersine yönelik tutum ve ingilizce konuşma kaygısına göre yordanması, Kastamonu Education Journal, 26(5), 1643- 1652.
  • Levitt, E. E. (1980). The psychology of anxiety. Hillsdale: NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Liu, M., & Jackson, J. (2008). An exploration of Chinese EFL learners’ unwillingness to communicate and foreign language anxiety. The Modern Language Journal, 92(1), 71–86.
  • Long, M. H., & Porter, P. A. (1985). Group work, interlanguage talk and second language acquisition. TESOL Quarterly, 19(2), 207- 228.
  • Mahmoodzadeh, M. (2012). Investigating foreign language speaking anxiety within the Efl learner’s interlanguage system: The case of Iranian learners. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 3(3),466476.
  • Wang, T. (2010). Speaking anxiety: More of a function of personality than language achievement. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (Bimonthly), (33) 5.
  • Williams, K. E., & Andrade, M. R. (2008). Foreign language learning anxiety in Japanese EFL university classes: Causes, coping, and locus of control. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(2), 181191.
  • Wilson, S.T.J. (2006). Anxiety in learning english as a foreign language: Its associations with student variables, with oral proficiency and with performance on an oral test. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universidad de Granada, Spain.
  • Wörde, V. R. (2003). Students’ perspectives on foreign language anxiety. Inquiry, 8 (1), 1-15.
  • Yan, J. X., & Horwitz, E. K. (2008). Learners' perceptions of how anxiety interacts with personal and instructional factors to influence their achievement in English: A qualitative analysis of EFL learners in China. Language Learning, 58(1), 151-183.
  • Yılmaz, E. (2019). An exploratory study on high school students’ anxiety for speaking english. (Unpublished master thesis). Çağ Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İstanbul.
  • Zhu, B. H. (2010). Relations among types of oral english learning motivation, english speaking strategies and english speaking anxiety in college students. Huazhong Normal University, People’s Republic of China.

Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce Öğrenen Mesleki ve Teknik Lise Öğrencilerinin İngilizce Konuşma Kaygıları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Yıl 2023, , 81 - 94, 30.03.2023
https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.64770

Öz

Araştırma yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğrenen Mesleki ve Teknik Lise öğrencilerinin yabancı dil öğrenmelerini etkileyen yabancı dil konuşma kaygılarına yönelik bir öz değerlendirme yapmalarını ve İngilizce konuşma kaygılarını hangi faktörlerin etkilediğini belirleme amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Meslek lisesi öğrencilerinin İngilizce konuşma kaygıları ile cinsiyetleri, sınıf düzeyleri, anne ve baba eğitim düzeyleri, aile gelir durumları değişkenleri arasındaki ilişki incelenmiştir. Bu amaçla araştırma genel tarama modelli bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın örneklemini 2019-2020 eğitim öğretim yılında Marmara Bölgesindeki bir şehirde bulunan üç meslek lisesinde 9., 10.,11. ve 12. sınıfta öğrenim gören 387 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada kullanılan veri toplama araçları olarak araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan ‘Kişisel Bilgi Formu’ ve Hortwitz, Hortwitz ve Cope (1986) tarafından geliştirilen ve Öztürk (2012) tarafından Türkçe’ye uyarlaması yapılan EFL Speaking Anxiety - İngilizce Konuşma Kaygısı Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçları, Meslek Lisesi öğrencilerinin İngilizce konuşma kaygıları sınıf düzeylerine, anne ve baba eğitim düzeylerine, aile gelir durumlarına göre anlamlı bir farklılık göstermezken cinsiyetlerine göre anlamlı farklılık göstermekte olduğunu ortaya çıkarmıştır. Bu bulgulardan kaynaklanan çıkarımlar da açıklanmıştır.

Kaynakça

  • Arslan, M. (2009). Türkiye’de yabancı dil edinim sorunu ve yabancı dil olarak Türkçe. In 1st International Symposium on Sustainable Development. 309.
  • Aydın, B. (1999). A study of sources of foreign language classroom anxiety in speaking and writing classes. (Unpublished doctoral thesis). Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Eskişehir.
  • Balemir, S. H. (2009). The sources of foreign language speaking anxiety and the relationship between proficiency level and the degree of foreign language speaking anxiety. (Unpublished master thesis). Bilkent Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara.
  • Baş, G. (2014). Lise öğrencilerinde yabancı dil öğrenme kaygısı: Nitel bir araştırma. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, (36), 101- 119.
  • Brown, H. D. (1994). Principles of language learning and teaching. London: Prentice Hall Regents.
  • Bygate, M. (1987). Speaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Durak, R. (2011). Araştırma yöntem ve teknikleri. (PowerPoint Slide). [Online] Available: https://atauni.edu.tr/yuklemeler/e6d32be6d3b1ad4dae5f6cc23165e2da.pdf (April, 29, 2020)
  • Demir Gençer, T. (2020). “An investigation of NLP – Based activities and their effects on language learners’ speaking anxiety: A case study”. (Unpublished master thesis). Gazi Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Ankara.
  • Gardner, R. C. & MacIntyre, P. D. (1993). A student’s contributions to second language learning. Part II: Affective variables. Language Teaching, 26 (1), 1-11.
  • Hanbay, O. (2013). Çocuklara yabancı dil öğretimi. Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık
  • Hortwitz, E.; Hortwitz, B., & Cope, J. (1986). Foreign language classroom anxiety, The Modern Language Journal, 70(3), 125-132.
  • Hortwitz, E. & Gregersen, T. (2002). Language learning and perfectionism: Anxious and non-anxious language learners’ reactions to their own oral performance, The Modern Language Journal, 86 (4), 562570.
  • Huang, H. (2004). The relationship between learning motivation and speaking anxiety among EFL nonEnglish major freshmen in Taiwan. (Unpublished master thesis). Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan.
  • İnceçay, V. & Yalçın, Ö. (2013). Foreign language speaking anxiety: The case of spontaneous speaking activities, 5th World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES 2013. Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 116, 2620- 2624.
  • Juhana. (2012). Psychological factors that hinders students from speaking in english class (A case study in a senior high school in South Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia). Journal of Education and Practice, 3(12), 100-110.
  • Kavruk, H. & Deniz, E. (2015). Ortaokul öğrencilerinin konuşma kaygıları (Samsun ili örneği). Journal of Language and Literature Education. 3(15), 63-89.
  • Korkmaz, H. (2019). “English speaking anxiety level of fifth grade students in a middle school in Van”. (Unpublished master thesis). Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Bursa.
  • Kozikoğlu, İ., & Kanat, F. (2018). Lise öğrencilerinin ingilizce dersine katılım durumlarının ingilizce dersine yönelik tutum ve ingilizce konuşma kaygısına göre yordanması, Kastamonu Education Journal, 26(5), 1643- 1652.
  • Levitt, E. E. (1980). The psychology of anxiety. Hillsdale: NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Liu, M., & Jackson, J. (2008). An exploration of Chinese EFL learners’ unwillingness to communicate and foreign language anxiety. The Modern Language Journal, 92(1), 71–86.
  • Long, M. H., & Porter, P. A. (1985). Group work, interlanguage talk and second language acquisition. TESOL Quarterly, 19(2), 207- 228.
  • Mahmoodzadeh, M. (2012). Investigating foreign language speaking anxiety within the Efl learner’s interlanguage system: The case of Iranian learners. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 3(3),466476.
  • Wang, T. (2010). Speaking anxiety: More of a function of personality than language achievement. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (Bimonthly), (33) 5.
  • Williams, K. E., & Andrade, M. R. (2008). Foreign language learning anxiety in Japanese EFL university classes: Causes, coping, and locus of control. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(2), 181191.
  • Wilson, S.T.J. (2006). Anxiety in learning english as a foreign language: Its associations with student variables, with oral proficiency and with performance on an oral test. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universidad de Granada, Spain.
  • Wörde, V. R. (2003). Students’ perspectives on foreign language anxiety. Inquiry, 8 (1), 1-15.
  • Yan, J. X., & Horwitz, E. K. (2008). Learners' perceptions of how anxiety interacts with personal and instructional factors to influence their achievement in English: A qualitative analysis of EFL learners in China. Language Learning, 58(1), 151-183.
  • Yılmaz, E. (2019). An exploratory study on high school students’ anxiety for speaking english. (Unpublished master thesis). Çağ Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İstanbul.
  • Zhu, B. H. (2010). Relations among types of oral english learning motivation, english speaking strategies and english speaking anxiety in college students. Huazhong Normal University, People’s Republic of China.
Toplam 27 adet kaynakça vardır.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)
Bölüm Araştırma Makalesi
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Seval Eminoğlu Küçüktepe 0000-0003-0247-6654

Yayımlanma Tarihi 30 Mart 2023
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2023

Kaynak Göster

APA Karakaya, C., & Eminoğlu Küçüktepe, S. (2023). An Investigation on English Speaking Anxiety among EFL Vocational and Technical High School Students. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 11(1), 81-94. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.64770