Exploring English speaking anxiety among Filipino engineering students: its influence on task performance and its sources
The need for effective English speaking skills in engineering fields compels schools to innovate curricula that shall address the language skills of a ‘global engineer.’ The impact of engineering curricular reforms trickled down among students who contend with language learning anxiety, besides a...
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ukm-140892020-01-31T22:45:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14089/ Exploring English speaking anxiety among Filipino engineering students: its influence on task performance and its sources Quinto, Edward Jay Mansarate Macayan, Jonathan Veran The need for effective English speaking skills in engineering fields compels schools to innovate curricula that shall address the language skills of a ‘global engineer.’ The impact of engineering curricular reforms trickled down among students who contend with language learning anxiety, besides anxiety from mathematics and other technical courses. In this paper, the researchers explored English speaking anxiety among 162 engineering students in an engineering University in Manila, Philippines. A mixed-method, explanatory sequential design was used. This method combines the quantitative and qualitative approaches in investigating the phenomenon under study, i.e., English speaking anxiety. In the quantitative phase, the researchers used data from the speaking component of a self-developed scale and speaking performance scores yielded from an interactive English conversation task. Analysis revealed a significant negative relationship between speaking anxiety and speaking task performance, pointing to the debilitative influence of anxiety on task performance. In the qualitative phase, semi-structured interviews among nine purposefully selected students revealed that both peers and teachers were common sources of speaking anxiety and in a variety of ways. The findings point to speaking anxiety as an important psycho- and sociolinguistic phenomenon, which is hinged on the specific roles that language teaching and learning plays in preparing engineering students as future language consumers and users in highly technical, specialized, and competitive engineering fields. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14089/1/31335-108009-1-PB.pdf Quinto, Edward Jay Mansarate and Macayan, Jonathan Veran (2019) Exploring English speaking anxiety among Filipino engineering students: its influence on task performance and its sources. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 19 (3). pp. 57-74. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1212 |
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The need for effective English speaking skills in engineering fields compels schools to
innovate curricula that shall address the language skills of a ‘global engineer.’ The impact of
engineering curricular reforms trickled down among students who contend with language
learning anxiety, besides anxiety from mathematics and other technical courses. In this paper,
the researchers explored English speaking anxiety among 162 engineering students in an
engineering University in Manila, Philippines. A mixed-method, explanatory sequential
design was used. This method combines the quantitative and qualitative approaches in
investigating the phenomenon under study, i.e., English speaking anxiety. In the quantitative
phase, the researchers used data from the speaking component of a self-developed scale and
speaking performance scores yielded from an interactive English conversation task. Analysis
revealed a significant negative relationship between speaking anxiety and speaking task
performance, pointing to the debilitative influence of anxiety on task performance. In the
qualitative phase, semi-structured interviews among nine purposefully selected students
revealed that both peers and teachers were common sources of speaking anxiety and in a
variety of ways. The findings point to speaking anxiety as an important psycho- and
sociolinguistic phenomenon, which is hinged on the specific roles that language teaching and
learning plays in preparing engineering students as future language consumers and users in
highly technical, specialized, and competitive engineering fields. |
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Exploring English speaking anxiety among Filipino engineering students: its influence on task performance and its sources |
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