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Teaching Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among English Teachers of College, Pakistan
Muhammad Owais Mughal, Amna Habib, Fayyaz Ahmed Shaheen
Abstract:
The study aims to examine teaching anxiety and foreign language anxiety among Pakistani English teachers. Language anxiety is critical factor while teaching English as a second language at college level in urban cities as well as rural areas of country. There are many ethnic groups in Pakistan society and diversity makes language anxiety complex due to different languages. A mixed-form questionnaire was utilized to gather data from English language teachers for the quantitative investigation. One hundred English language instructors who have studied the language at the collegiate level took part. SPSS was used to do the person correlation, independent t test, and one-way ANOVA and interpret the data using revealed the following findings: a) heavy workload and long teaching hours, fear of tailoring lessons to student's needs; b) poor health, incapability of managing home and workload, fatigue; c) concern about English language proficiency, high demands of the management for creating conducive learning environment; d) anxiety also acted as a motivational tool to motivate them further and strive harder for excellence. Anxiety is indeed an unavoidable effect of the teaching-learning process and is experienced by college teachers. It is time for this issue to be explored, analyzed and figured out the possible solution.
Keywords:
Teaching Anxiety, Foreign Language Anxiety, College English Teacher, Individual Characteristics.
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