Effects of an interactive class room environment on language anxiety among EFL learners
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2016
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
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The use of English language has increased rapidly for a variety of reasons. It has become a medium of instruction. Keeping in view its importance, it is being learnt and studied as a second language in Pakistan. Many institutions are offering English language learning courses. Pakistani speakers of English language face language anxiety during its use. This feeling of anxiety produces negative effect on learner’s language acquisition. In this research, researcher has tried to highlight issues that foreign language learner face during learning and describes how it affect their learning. The purpose of this study is to provide view of interactive classroom environment in second language acquisition through case study of 50 undergraduate students of English language, who underwent pretest and post-test. On the basis of pretest and post-test it is analyzed that the spoken of foreign language learners can be improved and language anxiety can be controlled with the help of classroom interaction. Levene’s test is applied on the results of pretest and posttest. The value came out to be 0.1 which is greater than 0.05. It means the results can be generalized over the entire population.
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Learning courses, interactive, M.Phil Thesis