The Level of Foreign Language Anxiety among EFL Students: A comparative study of ALM and CLT

Abstract

Research into language anxiety has a long history in language learning and teaching, but rarely is it investigated in comparing the difference between students taught in a CLT class and an ALM class. For this reason, this study looked into learners’ anxiety in ALM and CLT language classes. For the purpose of the study, 24 male English intermediate students were selected, 12 for CLT classroom and 12 for ALM. The researcher used The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). Using an independent t-test, the results indicated that there was a significant difference between these two groups of learners in language anxiety. The result of this study confirms the superiority of CLT approach in excluding the emotional barriers, anxiety in particular. There are both practical and pedagogical implications to be taken into consideration by English instructors, for instance, to control the level of anxiety, in their classrooms by applying the findings of this study.