scholarly journals THE RELIABILITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY SCALE IN MALAY VERSION BASED ON CRONBACH’S ALPHA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Rosnah Mohd. Sham ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
The Government

This paper is part of a study which addresses the reliability of Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) in Malay version.  Researchers find that the reliability of an instrument is closely associated with its validity and an instrument cannot be valid unless it is reliable. However, the reliability of an instrument does not depend on its validity. Therefore, this paper investigates the reliability of the instrument called FLCAS in Malay version.  FLCAS is widely used in collecting data relating to language anxiety and perhaps the most reliable and comprehensive tool in language anxiety.  This paper objectively measures the reliability of FLCAS by using Cronbach’s Alpha, the most widely used objective measure of reliability.  The sampled population involved 302 respondents from the government secondary schools in Putrajaya Federal Territory, Malaysia.  The items had been translated into the Malay language and back translated into English.  Results show that the internal consistency of Crobanch’s Alpha 0.90.  It can be concluded that FLCAS in Malay version is an appropriate instrument to measure the levels of language anxiety among the Malaysian secondary school students who learn English as a second language.

scholarly journals Foreign Language Learning Anxiety Among Low Intermediate Level EFL Students: A Comparison of the Anxiety Levels of Students Attending Three Different Turkish State Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Esen SPAHI KOVAÇ
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
And Gender

The present study examined the general foreign language classroom anxiety of   preparatory school students according to the type of University and gender. The sample consisted of 282 students from three preparatory schools. The students were from Anadolu Univeristy, Osmangazi University and Dumlupınar University. There were 150 male and 132 female students. One-Way ANOVA showed that there were no significant differences among the level of foreign language anxiety of preparatory school students from different Universities. In addition to considering anxiety in a gender differences t-test showed that female students have been found much more anxious than mail students in foreign language anxiety.

scholarly journals Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ): The Development and Validation of an Evaluation Instrument for Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis ◽  
Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Environmental Citizenship

Environmental citizenship is very important in sustainability research. The criticality of the observed environmental crisis requires capable and competent environmental citizens who can act as agents of change to achieve sustainability. This research presents the validation of the Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ) for assessing the environmental citizenship of secondary school students. To this end, Principal Component Analysis has been performed through the use of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. In addition, there has been a verification of sphericity and a measure of sampling adequacy using the Bartlett’s and Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) tests, respectively. Cronbach’s Alpha, eigenvalues and percentage of variance as well as Pearson’s correlation were also estimated. Using the data of 520 students in 10th grade, the ECQ showed very good results in all measurements performed, demonstrating high internal consistency, reliability and discriminant validity. From the factor analysis were derived nine factors with 76 items in total. Cronbach’s Alpha was greater than 0.702, indicating high reliability in all factors. The possible contribution of the ECQ in different contexts and educational frames and in sustainability education is discussed.

scholarly journals A Turkish Version of Foreign Language Anxiety Scale: Reliability and Validity

2016 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 250-256
Author(s):  
Selami Aydın ◽  
Leyla Harputlu ◽  
Serhat Güzel ◽  
ſeyda Savran ÿelik ◽  
ÿzgehan Uſtuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Scale Reliability

scholarly journals iPractice for Oral Interviews: The Use of Technology to Reduce Students’ Anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Eduardo Viana da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
De Se

Este estudo de caso analisa o uso da tecnologia de gravação de voz e seus benefícios na preparação para entrevistas orais em cursos de Português como Língua Adicional (PLA). Verifica-se particularmente como o uso de gravações de voz pode diminuir o nível de ansiedade em um grupo de estudantes universitários em um curso de português nos Estados Unidos. Analisa-se o processo de preparação para entrevistas orais com 13 estudantes universitários matriculados em um curso de português de verão em uma universidade de grande porte na Costa Oeste dos Estados Unidos. Este estudo demonstra que as entrevistas orais presencias são beneficiadas pela preparação dos alunos através da utilização de tecnologia. Demonstra-se uma possível correlação entre a preparação dos estudantes e a redução da ansiedade durante as entrevistas orais presenciais. A preparação oferecida a este grupo de alunos também enfatiza a importância de se oferecer uma abordagem sistemática para entrevistas orais e a necessidade de se tratar do nível de ansiedade experienciado por estudantes de línguas durante tais entrevistas. Outros estudos sobre ansiedade dos estudantes são tomados como base teórica para este estudo de caso, especialmente o trabalho seminal de Horwitz, Horwitz e Cope (1986) com a criação da Escala de Ansiedade de Língua Estrangeira (Foreign Language Anxiety Scale - FLAS) e os estudos baseados no FLAS, de Hewitt e Stephenson (2012), Pérez Castillejo (2018) e Phillips (1992).

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