城乡六年级小学生英语学习焦虑的比较

A Comparative Study on Anxiety of English learning between Urban and Rural Grade-six Students in Primary School

本文从交际畏惧、考试焦虑、否定评价恐惧和对英语课的焦虑四方面,对比研究了城乡小学六年级英语焦虑,结果发现:除了对否定评价恐惧外,乡镇六年级学生在交际畏惧、考试焦虑和对英语课的焦虑显著高于城市六年级学生;近一半乡镇小学六年级学生存在中焦虑和高焦虑,而少数城市六年级学生存在中等焦虑,无高焦虑。对此,本文就乡英语教育和教师培训等方面提出建议。

This paper comparesthe language learning anxiety between urban and rural primary students from 4 aspects, namely, the communication anxiety, test anxiety, negative evaluation anxiety and anxiety to attend the English class. It finds that more rural students have higher anxiety than the urban students in all the aspects of anxiety except the negative evaluation. And about half rural students have middle and top anxiety, while few urban students have low anxiety and no one has top anxiety. Based on these findings, suggestions on rural English teaching and teachers＇ training are made.