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标题：An Investigation into University Students⿿ Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety
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作者：Hakan Karatas ; Hakan Karatas ; Bulent Alci 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2016
卷号：232
页码：382-388
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.053
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Abstract How anxiety affects the learning a foreign language is a focus in the current studies such as Horwitz's (1986), and MacIntyre and Gardner's (1994). Taking into consideration this focus, the aim of this study is to identify whether the students⿿ foreign language speaking anxiety demonstrate significant differences in terms of their gender, language level, receiving English preparatory training, and the kind of high school they graduated from. The research group included 320 male (65.6%) and 168 female (34.4%) English preparatory students at Istanbul Technical University. Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety Questionnaire developed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) and adapted in Turkish by was used as the data collection tool. Data were analysed using independent samples T-test and one-way ANOVA. According to T-test results, it was seen that female students⿿ score is higher than male students⿿. Also, it could be reported anxiety of students who have received English preparatory training are lower based on T-test results. Moreover, ANOVA results indicated the students⿿ language level and the kind of high school do not affect their speaking anxiety. In a nutshell, the foreign language speaking anxiety is affected by gender and receiving English preparatory training.
关键词：Speaking Anxiety;Foreign Language Learning