Relationship Between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Global Self-Esteem Among Male and Female Students at Different Educational Levels in Shiraz

摘要

This study attempted to investigate the relationship between EFL learners' 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, et al., 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 negative and significant relationship between FLCA and GSE among females altogether and at each educational level separately. Among males as a whole,significant negative relationship existed but not within educational groups.This relationship was much stronger for the females than the males, and the strongest relationship existed among the female juniors.