Factors Influencing Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among Undergraduate Students

By : Bijon Baroi, Zakiya Sultwana, Razina Sultana, Noor Muhammad, Asoke Kumar Saha

Page No: 639-649

Abstract
The present study investigated the factors affecting foreign language speaking anxiety among undergraduate students who are staying in Dhaka city of Bangladesh. The main objective of the study was to find out whether foreign language speaking anxiety varied among undergraduate students in terms of residential area, socioeconomic status, parental education and occupation. A total of 100 first year students from ten departments of Jagannath University in Dhaka were selected as participants based on some criteria for avoiding extraneous effect. To measure speaking anxiety, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) was used and to collect the socio-demographic factors personal information form was used. The analysis of data was done by applying appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics including independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA using SPSS version 23. The main impact of socio-demographic factors was found among undergraduate students. It has been found that, there were significant differences in foreign language speaking anxiety among different levels of residential area, socio-economic status, parental education and fathers’ occupation. But no significant differences in mother’s occupation on foreign language speaking anxiety of under graduate students were found. The implications of these findings for theory, research, and practice are discussed.

Authors :
Bijon Baroi : Lecturer – Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka.
Zakiya Sultwana : MSc. – Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka.
Razina Sultana : Associate Professor – Department of Social Work, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100.
Noor Muhammad : Professor & Chairman – Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100.
Asoke Kumar Saha : Corresponding Author, Professor – Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.02.25