Existence of Foreign Language Anxiety in Major and Non-Major English Graduates of South Punjab

Iram Sharif, Asia Iqbal, Muhammad Shafiq and Anila Shakil
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Iram Sharif: M.Phil. in English (Applied Linguistics) Minhaj University Lahore, Pakistan
Asia Iqbal: PhD Scholar English Linguistics University of Jamshoro; Senior Lecturer in English Department at Institute of Southern Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Shafiq: Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Emerson University Multan, Pakistan
Anila Shakil: Master of Science in Psychology, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan

Journal of Policy Research (JPR), 2022, vol. 8, issue 4, 274-282

Abstract: Foreign language anxiety could be a hurdle in gaining the advanced knowledge and the communicative competencies. Graduate students have to go through the phases of national and international development through their development skills. The English language is an essential key of communication and advanced knowledge skills. Graduate students cannot perform better, if they have foreign language anxiety. Present study is conducted to understand the comparatively, existence of foreign language anxiety in major and non-major English graduate students studying in the institutes of Southern Punjab. Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) is adopted to measure the anxiety of the graduate students. This scale consists of 33 different questions while the data is collected from the sample of 200 graduate students studying in different institutes of Southern Punjab. Obtained data is analyzed in SPSS version 25 and tabulation is made in Microsoft Excel 2016. The results of the study show that there is an existence of foreign language anxiety in graduate students. Comparatively, male students are more prey of anxiety as compared to females. The results also show that, even non-major English students have anxiety, but they are seemed to be more willing and motivated to learning English as a foreign language, compared to major English graduate students.

Keywords: Language Anxiety; EFL; Motivation; Graduate Student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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