Essay On Anxiety In Libya

Introduction:

.Libya is one of the middle east countries that try to achive an effective ELT system because of the growing significance that English language plays in the world. Public and private Libyan schools put the English language as a mandatory subject starting from the primary level and invest big resources to achieve an efficient level of ELT. However, with all these efforts, the ELT students in Libya still have difficulties to use the English language effectively even though in Libya, learning a new language is a challenging task to the students because it is much easier to them to study in their mother tongue. It has been mentioned by many authors that anxiety plays an important role in creating this challenge among other factors

These researches and studies can be classified into two main categories. The first one is the studies that attempted to study the influence of anxiety on learning English as foreign language in general while the second category contains the considerable number of studies that attempted to study the correlation between anxiety and language skills such as speaking, reading, listening and writing separately. Among those researches there was a study that was conducted in 1986 by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope. This study has considerably contributed to the definition of the foreign language anxiety because it developed a systematic and comprehensive instrument named as Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale ( FLCAS). This scale has been known in the world and it has been used as a tool to investigate the foreign language

As mentioned earlier, anxiety is considered as a significant factor of the EFL learners’ achievement, therefore this study will measure the anxiety among the EFL students in Libya. Significance of Study:

This study will contribute to the knowledge of the importance of the EFL anxiety that Libyan students suffer from. When this study is done, the results will give an image about the factors that causes the EFL anxiety with all its types (communication apprehension anxiety, test anxiety, negative evaluation anxiety and anxiety of English classes). Knowing the factors that cause anxiety will encourage experts in the EFL major to find out solutions to the problem.

Research Questions:

1) What are the underlying factors of communication apprehension anxiety among the EFL students in Libya?

2) What are the underlying factors of test anxiety among the EFL students in Libya?

3) What are the underlying factors of negative evaluation anxiety among the EFL students in Libya?

4) What are the underlying factors of anxiety of English classes among the EFL students in