Second language speaking anxiety among Malaysian postgraduate students at a Faculty of education
This study examined the level of L2 speaking anxiety among school teachers undertaking a master’s degree at the International Islamic University Malaysia and sought to determine if the anxiety level would differ by gender, school location and teaching subject. A convenience sample of 290 teachers...
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Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD
2020
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/80464/1/80464_Second%20Language%20Speaking%20Anxiety.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/80464/ http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJELS/article/view/6003/4286 |
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| Summary: | This study examined the level of L2 speaking anxiety among school teachers undertaking a
master’s degree at the International Islamic University Malaysia and sought to determine if the
anxiety level would differ by gender, school location and teaching subject. A convenience sample
of 290 teachers completed a 12-item survey on L2 speaking anxiety adapted from Nazir et al.
(2014). The survey data were analyzed using the Rasch measurement modeling for polytomous
data, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. Overall, the respondents did not show
high levels of speaking anxiety, (Mean -.89 logits). Most were largely worried about being able to
express themselves effectively in English (-.66 logits), making mistakes in speaking (-.31 logits),
and how lecturers would react to their mistakes (-.38 logits). The sample’s speaking anxiety
scores were found to differ signifcantly by teaching subject, while no statistically signifcant
differences were observed in regard to gender and school location. The results imply that the
teachers need to be helped in terms of confronting the factors that cause them to be anxious about
speaking in English. In terms of research, in-depth qualitative studies need to be undertaken to
further understand the nature of L2 speaking anxiety among schoolteachers, while quantitative
studies with larger samples are recommended to uncover underlying factors of speaking anxiety |
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