OVERCOMING LANGUAGE ANXIETY AMONG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL ASPECT
Journal Title: Наука і освіта - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 7
Abstract
Foreign language anxiety, the feeling of tension and apprehension specifically associated with learning a foreign lan- guage is considered to be the major factor encountered by language learners around the world. The consideration of lan- guage anxiety in the modern English classroom is highly significant to help learners boost their confidence and develop their communication skills in the target language. The current study addresses the following research questions: 1. What factors may cause the anxiety that university students encounter in the process of learning English? 2. What psychological and peda- gogical strategies in reducing the language anxiety among English language learners to cope with the language anxiety can be utilized? The research is of qualitative and descriptive type. A survey questionnaire (by Horwitz et al.) was suggested to 86 students of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv. The findings of this study clearly indi- cate that in spite of the use of modern communicative approaches and techniques by university teachers, the problem of Eng- lish language anxiety still persists among the students. Teachers should do their best to reduce anxiety in their students by creating an attractive, warm atmosphere inside the classrooms and increasing students’ motivation in learning English. They should help their students to cope with negative attitudes and unpleasant feelings towards learning English. Furthermore, they should build students’ self-confidence by using positive reinforcement, encouragements. Coping strategies for foreign language anxiety may include those helping the students learn to deal with the context provoking anxiety and those making the learning context less stressful. In order to reduce the language anxiety, special trainings, activities and sessions should be used for language learners such as direct discussing students’ anxieties, cooperative learning activities, progressive relaxa- tion, deep breathing, meditation, soothing music and humor, encouraging statements as well.
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Svitlana Tsymbal
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- EP ID EP569367
- DOI 10.24195/2414-4665-2017-7-16
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