高校研究生英语学术会议交流:焦虑、水平与应付

Postgraduates' English Academic Presentation: Anxiety, Performance and Response

本研究以高校研究生为研究对象,探讨研究生学术英语陈述中的焦虑问题,采取评委计分衡量学生的陈述水平,并采用问卷调查学生的焦虑状态和对焦虑的应对方式。结果表明:研究生的公众演讲焦虑处于中等状态,将高低焦虑组进行对比后发现高焦虑者在陈述的流畅性、陈述技巧和连贯性方面不如低焦虑者的表现,此外,高焦虑者在心理应付上倾向于幻想和逃避的消极方式。本研究为学术英语教学提供指导,帮助教师在学术英语陈述训练环节采用更有针对性、更有效的方式提高学生的学术英语陈述能力。

This study focuses its objects on the postgraduates and its subject on the issue of anxiety during English academicpresentation. The performance is scored by the judges and the anxious situation and psychological response are tested by thequestionnaire. We find that the postgraduates＇ average anxiety is at the middle status. The further comparative study of the highand low groups of anxiety shows that those of high anxiety are inferior to those of low anxiety in the terms of fluency, strategy andcoherence of the presentation. Besides, postgraduates of high anxiety tend to response with negative illusion and evasion. Withthese results, we are aimed at providing guidance to academic English teaching, helping the teachers adopt more direct andefficient methods so as to improve the ability of the postgraduates in academic English presentation.