A Study On The Prevalence Of English Language Classroom Anxiety With A Particular Reference To Grade 9 (nine) At Aman Secondary School In Bench Maji Zone

The main objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of foreign language/ secondrnlanguage classroom anxiety at grade 9 (nine) secondary school students. To this end, a total ofrn142 grade 9 (nine) students were selected from Aman secondary school. Data collection for thisrnstudy relied on self –report questionnaire (FLCAS- developed by Horwitz et al 1986), student’srnfirst semester final exam and semi- structured interviews for teachers. Thus, FLCAS Amharicrnversion was coded and administered to students in order to measure the level of foreignrnlanguage classroom anxiety. The students first semester English final examination result wasrnused to determine the relationship between English language classroom anxiety and Englishrnachievement test result. Finally an interview was conducted with three grade 9 (nine) teachers inrnorder to check students general situation in the classroom and to find out solutions to reduce thernlevel of anxiety from those who have a direct contact with the learners. Descriptive statistic torndetermine anxiety level, t- test to find out significance difference between males and femalesrnanxiety level and achievement and Pearson’s correlation coefficient to determine relationshiprnbetween anxiety and achievement test result were used to test the research problem. The findingrnof this study shows that: 1) most of the students found to be anxious since above half of thernstudents scored FLCAS above mean value 3.00 (three). 2) with respect to gender no significantrndifference is observed between males and females on their foreign language classroom anxietyrnlevel except fear of negative evaluation because the t-value of fear of negative evaluationrnindicated that there is a significant difference 3) the study indicated that there was a significantrnnegative relationship between students English language classroom anxiety and Englishrnachievement test result at the significant level of near to 0.001. 4) This study also investigatedrnthat males’ achievement test result was a little bit higher than that of females, no significancerndifference was found on their achievement. Finally, the finding of this study depicted that anxietyrnis prevalent at a higher degree among the subjects of the study and had negative correlationsrnwith their English language achievement test result.

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