A STUDY ON LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION AMONG SECONDARY LEVEL LANGUAGE TEACHERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
K. MALINI ◽  
C. JANAKAVALLI ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Secondary Level ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Relationship between Fear of Negative Evaluation and Anxiety

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Kumar J ◽  
Athilakshmi R ◽  
Maharishi R ◽  
Maya R
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Anxiety is an important psychological phenomenon which influences everyone’s life. In other words everyone experience some sort of anxiety in a day to day life. Many people experience anxiety when they speak in front of public. For most people especially, students these feelings of anxiety start before they begin to speak and continue throughout the speech but subside immediately after the speech ends. Some may feel only slightly nervous whereas another may feel faded and nauseated. Like anxiety, fear of negative evaluation also one of an important psychological factors which negatively influences performance of students. With this background, the present study attempted to understand the relationship between these psychological factors of students deeply. A study was done at VIT University-Chennai among 64 students studying in different branches of engineering. Samples of the study are both hostel dwellers and day scholars. Of the 64 students, 33 were female and 31 were male, who were selected through simple random sampling method and survey research design was adopted. The tools used in this study are Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE; Watson & Friend, 1969) and State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Speilberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg& Jacobs, 1983). The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. In other words the fear of negativism and State Trait Anxiety correlated highly positively.

scholarly journals English Language Anxiety of Tertiary Level Learners in Bangladesh: Level and Sources

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Abdullah Al Mamun
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
English Language ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Tertiary Level

The prime objectives of this study were to unveil the level of anxiety and the sources of English language anxiety of the tertiary level students of Bangladesh. Through a questionnaire survey using Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz et al. (1986), the study found that most of the tertiary level learners have high anxiety of English as a foreign language. Based on an exploratory factor analysis with principal component analysis and varimax rotation (Kaiser Normalization), a four-factor (communication anxiety, comprehension and test anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and lack of anxiety) solution emerged. Following a close analysis of the EFA and other established valid models, the study found that six components, namely, speaking anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, peer pressure/social-image anxiety, comprehension-related anxiety, negative attitude towards class, and test anxiety were the main sources of anxiety, which need to be addressed for alleviating the anxiety of the students.

Orthorexia Nervosa in China: An Exploration of Phenomenology and Clinical Correlates Among University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolu Zhou ◽  
Sophie C. Schneider ◽  
Sandra L. Cepeda ◽  
Eric A. Storch
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Orthorexia Nervosa ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Clinical Correlates ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Orthorexia nervosa, characterized by pathological preoccupation with healthy eating and food purity, is conceptualized as being linked to cultural concepts of health pervasive in contemporary Western societies. However, little is known about the phenomenology and clinical correlates of orthorexia nervosa in non-Western cultures. The current study examined symptoms of orthorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation among 418 Chinese university students. A minority of participants endorsed frequent or impairing orthorexia nervosa symptoms, and females reported slightly higher severity of orthorexia nervosa symptoms than males. Orthorexia nervosa symptom severity was moderately associated with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety symptoms, and weakly associated with depressive symptoms and fear of negative evaluation. Although this study generates initial data about orthorexia nervosa among Chinese students, further research is greatly needed to establish the prevalence and clinical characteristics of orthorexia nervosa in Western and Non-Western cultures.

scholarly journals Investigating Anxiety in an Indonesian EFL Speaking Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
RAIS ABIN ◽  
Hariadi Syam
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Abstract.  This research aimed to explore the kinds of anxiety experienced by the students in learning speaking, and to examine the causes of the anxiety in learning speaking. This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were 36 students consisting 19 females and 17 males selected to be research participants through conveniently selected sampling. The data of this research were collected by online questionnaire, and interview. The obtained data were analyzed in three major phases namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The result of the research revealed three kinds of anxiety experienced by the students in learning speaking namely trait anxiety, situational-specific anxiety, and state anxiety. Furthermore, the causes of speaking anxiety were communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation.

scholarly journals Acculturating Stress, Language Anxiety and Procrastination of International Students in the Academic Settings

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Лариса Засєкіна ◽  
Олена Журавльова
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Academic Settings

Objectives. The aim of the study is to examine the procrastination among international students in academic settings in Ukraine. Materials & Methods. The 41 participants were recruited from two national universities in Volyn oblast who came from African countries to obtain higher education in Ukraine. Procrastination Scale, Acculturative Stress Scale, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale were applied in the research. Results. Evidence consistently suggests that there are no gender differences in procrastination, acculturating stress, and language anxiety. However, a weak negative correlation between procrastination and age of the participants was found (r=-0.26 p<0.05). It is possible to hypothesise that academic procrastination is less likely to occur in mature age, being replaced by the procrastination in other life domains. The findings of multiple regression suggest that acculturative stress and language anxiety taken together predict procrastination of the international students (R2 = 0.469, F (4, 37) = 2.741, p=0.015). However, amongst other predictors only fear of negative evaluation as a separate scale of language anxiety is an independent robust predictor of procrastination. One unanticipated finding was that accultuarion is not a significant moderator of the interaction between fear of negative evaluation and procrastination. Therefore, international students’ procrastination is predicted by rather social anxiety of being evaluated than cultural settings and language anxiety per se. This inference is in line with the evidence that test anxiety and communication apprehension are not independent significant predictors of procrastination. Conclusion. The current study showed that the main predictor of procrastination is linked to social anxiety which might be triggered by new cultural and academic settings and, therefore, transformed into procrastination. However, with a small sample size which represents only African students, caution must be applied, as the findings might not be extrapolated for the international students from other countries. Further studies, which take these limitations into account, will need to be undertaken.

scholarly journals Exploring Fear of Negative Evaluation in Foreign Language Anxiety: Photovoice of Undergraduates in Speaking Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anindyastuti Wardhani
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
Learning English

Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is a common situation happens in EFL classroom. This phenomenon usually causes the students’ anxiety while they are learning English. The previous study proved that language learners performed significantly better on oral foreign language if they were in less anxious situations. Students’ unwillingness for participating speaking activities in the classroom caused by their assumption of being judged negatively and lack of mastering the speaking skill. The objective of this research is to explore whether there is foreign language anxiety problem among Indonesian undergraduates in speaking class. The researchers collected and processed the data using Photovoice. The participants of this research were 14 undergraduate students in the 5th semester. The findings indicated that the students have anxiety during performing speaking activity in classroom. As the implication, teachers can facilitate the students by creating a conducive, comfortable, and non-threatening class to help alleviating the students' foreign language anxiety.

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