Open AccessWho is more anxious in learning a foreign language: males or females?
Author(s) -
Defira Afrianti,
Mauloeddin Afna
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
inspira
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2722-7642
pISSN - 2722-7634
DOI - 10.32505/inspira.v1i2.2877
Subject(s) - anxiety , stratified sampling , psychology , test anxiety , sample (material) , clinical psychology , significant difference , developmental psychology , sampling (signal processing) , test (biology) , foreign language , english language , scale (ratio) , medicine , mathematics education , psychiatry , geography , cartography , paleontology , chemistry , filter (signal processing) , chromatography , computer science , computer vision , biology , pathology
This study aims to investigate English speaking anxiety experienced by students on gender difference. This quantitative study applied a comparative design with 122 English students (male: 20,5%) as a research sample using the proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected by Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale by Horwitz that consist of 33 statements. By independent sample t-test, the result showed that the anxiety means a score of male students was 89,60, and the female was 93,24, with a p-value of 0,203. It indicated that the anxiety experienced by males and females was not significantly different.