Investigating Foreign Language Anxiety among Secondary School Students.

Abstract

The study aims to investigate foreign language anxiety among secondary school learners in Tiaret. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that anxiety has a negative impact on student's level it effects the student's achievement to a great extent, in order to confirmed the cited hypothesize a descriptive method has been conducted in which two questionnaires were administered; one for 50 secondary school teachers and the second for 91 first year secondary school learners. Thus the aim behind those questionnaires was to explore the sources of anxiety and to gather sufficient and suitable data about the effect of anxiety on learner’s achievement, in addition to the techniques that teachers use to help their anxious learners. Finally, the study shows that most of the learners have a great amount of anxiety since most of them avoid presentation and practicing, furthermore, the results of the questionnaires revealed that the majority of teachers are aware of their roles and they use some procedures to diminishing anxiety from student's by encouraging and motivating them to study since anxiety is a common problem whenever it increase, the student's motivation decrease, besides, creating a relaxed atmosphere and make learners engaged automatically without any fear of making mistakes and dividing them to work in groups with giving them the chance to discuss in the classroom. By those techniques student's can cope from their anxiety, feeling at ease in the foreign language session and achieve a better result.