Cooperative Learning Techniques to Reduce Anxiety in Speaking Case Study: Third Year LMD Students in the Department of English, Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou
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2014-09-30
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation attempts to investigate whether foreign language anxiety (FLA) exists
among advanced learners and tests the effectiveness of cooperative learning technique to
reduce that anxiety in speaking. It uses Horwitz et al. (1986) Foreign Language anxiety
Classroom, then, the structure of Pair and Group activities used by Nagahashi (2007)
Techniques for Reducing Foreign Language Anxiety. To collect data, fifty questionnaires
were administered to third year LMD students, and a semi-structured interview was
conducted with five teachers in the Department of English, Mouloud MAMMERI University,
Tizi Ouzou. In order to analyze and interpret the collected data we opted for the Mixed
Methods Research which makes use of the combination between the quantitative and the
qualitative methods. The quantitative method helps to obtain statistical data and the
qualitative method to bring more information about the investigation. The findings show that
Anxiety associated with communication apprehension exists among the students because they
feel in tense when they are asked to speak in class and cooperation between them is an
anxiety relieving technique. As a conclusion to the overall findings, foreign language anxiety
is an important affective factor within language learning process and finding new strategies
to lower it, is more than urgent
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55p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
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Language and Communication