CAUSES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY AMONG PUBLICSECTOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ STUDENTS

Abstract

Language is an essential basis of communication. It is told that through language we can judge the
feelings, emotions and interests of people. The aim of the study was find the causes of English language
learning anxiety among public sector Secondary schools’ students. The nature of the study was descriptive
and survey method was applied for collection of data from the respondent. Population of the study was
comprised of 2114 Male and 1678 Female students of grade 9th of Public Sector Secondary Schools of
Tehsil Depalpure, District Okara, Punjab, Pakistan. The sample was comprised of 211 Male and 168
Female students of grade 9th in Public Sector Secondary School students by using proportional random
sampling technique. Self developed questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analysed by using
SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 21. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to
analyses the data. The findings of the study revealed that students feel English language learning anxiety.