Language Anxiety Among Students of English Language Departments

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the linguistic anxiety among students of the English language departments at the University of Baghdad according to the variable (gender - and grade), the study sample consisted of (212) male and female students from the English Language Department at the College of Education Ibn Rushd, by (58) males (154) females, were selected in a stratified random proportional method, and the researcher used the correlational descriptive approach in her study. To achieve the objectives of the current research, the two scales of linguistic anxiety prepared by (Kim, 2000) were adopted, and after verifying the psychometric properties of both scales, they were applied to the current research sample, and through the use of appropriate statistical means with the help of the statistical bag for social sciences (SPSS), the study reached the following most prominent results: Students of English language departments in general, according to gender and grade variables, have a low level of language anxiety.