English Language Anxiety of Higher Secondary Level Students in Nepal

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the level of English language anxiety of learners of higher secondary level (HSL) education in Nepal in terms of their gender, nature of institution, medium of instruction and stream. The study consists of 552 learners from 22 higher secondary school of academic session 2015/6 whom a questionnaire with 5-point Likert scale was administered. The data obtained were analyzed using mean, Mann-Whitney U-test and Kruskal Wallis H-test of non-parametric test. In the result, learners' anxiety level in learning English in overall was found moderate (M = 2.6673). Regarding the gender, female students of higher secondary level in Nepal were found statistically significantly highly anxious than male students. Similarly, the Nepali medium ELT students in term of medium of instruction were found statistically significantly highly anxious than English medium ELT students. Regarding the nature of institution, government HSL students were found statistically significantly highly anxious than private HSL students. Regarding the different streams, the result showed that there was a statistically significantly different in anxiety level between the students of different streams.