Study Of Domestic Solid Waste Management In Jimma Town Southwest Ethiopia

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between English language learningrnclassroom anxiety and students’ English achievement test result. For this purpose 129 gradern11(eleven) students were randomly selected from Dembecha preparatory and secondary school.rnA self reporting questionnaire i.e foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS), developedrnby Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986), consisted of 33 items, was administered to measure thernstudents’ foreign language classroom anxiety level. The students’ first semester English finalrnexamination result was used to determine the relationship between English classroom anxietyrnand English achievement test result .Descriptive statistics to determine anxiety level,t-test to findrnout significance difference between males and females anxiety level and achievement andrnPearson’s Moment Correlation Coefficient to determine relationship between anxiety andrnachievement test result were used to test the research problems.rnThe result of the data analysis indicated that most of the students were found to be anxious. Withrnrespect to gender no significance difference was observed between males and females on theirrnforeign language classroom anxiety level. The study further showed that there was a significantrnnegative relationship between students’ English language classroom anxiety and Englishrnachievement test result at the significance level of 0.001.The study also investigated that therernwas achievement test result variation among the subjects of the study with respect to their anxietyrnlevel. Finally it was found that though males’ achievement test result was a little bit higher thanrnthat of females, no significant difference was found on achievement between them. The findings ofrnthis study depicted that anxiety is prevalent among the subjects of the study and had negativerncorrelations with their English language achievement test result.rnAnd the study made recommendations aimed at reducing classroom English language learningrnanxiety.

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