FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY AFFECTING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ENGLISH LEARNING

Öz

The aim of this paper is to explore the effect of foreign language anxiety onstudents’ learning English as a foreign language. Likert Scale Anxiety Survey wasconducted with 293 EFL learners selected randomly and the t-test, ANOVA andSceffé tests were used to analyze the gathered data. It was investigated that whetherlearners’ parents’ education, occupation, sex and type of school that they had graduated from were effective on the level of foreign language anxiety. Resultsrevealed that learners’ anxiety levels were not affected by the mentioned factors.However, it was found that in some of the schools, where the students’ anxiety levelwas high, the students’ success was low. It was identified that secondary school students’ anxiety level influenced those learners’ academic performance

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Foreign langage anxiety
• academic performance
• secondary schooleducation
• ELT

LİSE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRENİMLERİNİ ETKİLEYEN YABANCI DİL KAYGISI

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Bu çalışmanın amacı ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin İngilizce öğrenmelerini etkileyen yabancı dil kaygısının İngilizce öğrenimine etkisini belirlemektir. Rasgeleyöntemle seçilen 293 öğrenciye Likert tipi yabancı dil kaygı ölçeği uygulanmıştır.Verilerin analizi için t-testi, tek yönlü ANOVA ve Scheffé testleri kullanılmıştır.Öğrencilerin, anne ve babalarının eğitim düzeylerinin, mesleklerinin, cinsiyetlerinin, mezun oldukları ve okudukları okul türünün yabancı dil kaygı düzeylerineetkisi araştırılmış ve öğrencilerin kaygı düzeylerinin bunlardan etkilenmediği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ancak kaygı düzeyi yüksek öğrencisi olan okulların bir kısmındabaşarı düzeyleri düşük bulunmuştur. Ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin yabancı dil kaygıdüzeylerinin başarılarını etkilediği belirlenmiştir

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yabancı dil kaygısı
• Akademik başarı
• Ortaöğretim
• İngilizce öğretimi

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