%0 Journal Article
%T The Relationship between Foreign Language Anxiety and English Achievement of Y ld z Technical University School of Foreign Languages Preparatory Students
%A Didar Zeynep BATUMLU
%A M¨¹nire ERDEN
%J Journal of Theory and Practice in Education
%D 2007
%I ?anakkale Onsekiz Mart University
%X The goal of this study was to determine the relation between foreign language anxiety and students¡¯ English achievement. The sample of the study consisted of 150 A, B and C level students attending Y ld z Technical University, School of Foreign Languages, Basic English Department Prep Classes. The level of students¡¯ foreign language anxiety was measured by ¡®Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale¡¯ developed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986). Students¡¯ achievement level was determined by the average of their 1st and 2nd midterm grades. Pearson Correlation, t-test and ANOVA were used to test research problems. According to the findings of the study, it was found that while students¡¯ initial foreign language anxiety didn¡¯t vary according to their English level, their latter foreign language anxiety differed significantly for B and C level students. It was also found that neither students¡¯ initial foreign language anxiety, nor their latter foreign language anxiety differed according to their gender. Study showed that for all levels of students, there was a significant negative relationship between students¡¯ foreign language anxiety and their English achievement at the significance level of 0.45. Finally, it was found that B and C level students¡¯ foreign language anxiety differs in successful and unsuccessful students. Unsuccessful students¡¯ foreign language anxiety was higher than successful students.
%K foreign language teaching
%K foreign language anxiety
%K achievement
%U http://eku.comu.edu.tr/index/3/1/dzbatumlu_merden.pdf