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On the Relationship between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Global Self-Esteem among Male and Female Students at Different Educational Levels

Yamini Mortaza نويسنده , Tahriri Abdorreza نويسنده

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This study attempted to investigate the relationship between EFL learnersי Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) and their Global Self-esteem (GSE) with regard to gender and educational level. The participants were 123 students studying English at Shiraz University. The data were gathered through two questionnaires: the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986) and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). To determine the relationship between FLCA and GSE correlational analysis was employed and to test the significance of the mean differences between males and females, the two-way ANOVA was used. The findings revealed a significant negative relationship between FLCA and GSE among females altogether and at each educational level separately. Among males as a whole, significant negative relationship existed between FLCA and GSE, but educational level was not a determining factor. This relationship was much stronger for the females than the males and the strongest relationship existed among the female juniors

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