한국 EFL 대학생의 사회 불안과 외국어 불안과의 관계에 대한 고찰

• 영문명: A Study on the Relationship between Social Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety of Korean EFL College Students
• 발행기관: 한국비교정부학회
• 저자명: 이영림(Young-Lim Lee) 김지효(Jihyo Kim) 박성만(Seong-Man Park) 장종화(Jong-Hwa Jang) 주미란(Meeran Joo) 박은서(Eunseo Park) 박종태(Jong-Tae Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국비교정부학보』제25권 제1호, 53~74쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 행정학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.03.30

영문 초록

(Purpose) One of the goals of learning English as a foreign language (EFL) is to communicate properly but EFL anxiety has been found to be one of obstacles to EFL learning. Since listening and speaking language are interactive processes, listening anxiety is possibly related to speaking anxiety, resulting in poor performance when learning English. Moreover, as language is used as a communicative tool, anxiety in social interaction might have an effect on EFL anxiety. The purpose of this study, thus, was to examine whether and how social anxiety and interpersonal orientation were associated with English listening and speaking anxiety. (Design/methodology/approach) 94 freshmen who enrolled in college English classes participated in the survey of this study. We used a Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale to measure English listening anxiety and Public Speaking Class Anxiety Scale to measure English speaking anxiety. In addition, Social Avoidance Distress Scale was used to measure social anxiety and Fundamental Interpersonal Relation Orientation-Behavior short version was used to measure interpersonal orientation of EFL learners. (Findings) This study has shown that social anxiety was strongly associated with English speaking anxiety and the relationship between social anxiety and English speaking anxiety was mediated by English listening anxiety. Moreover, interpersonal orientation moderated the relationship between social anxiety and English speaking anxiety. It was shown that the learners with a high interpersonal orientation showed high English speaking anxiety even though their social anxiety was low. (Research implications or Originality) The findings of this study imply that it is important to reduce social anxiety when learning English because social anxiety is strongly related to English listening and speaking anxiety. Furthermore, since individual characteristics such as interpersonal orientation also has an effect on anxiety when learning English, characteristics of learners should be considered. Since Virtual Reality(VR) systems could be useful in considering learner’s attributes as well as reduce anxiety, we suggest that it is necessary to develop a VR environment for learning a foreign language(FL).

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Literature Review

Ⅲ. Methods

Ⅳ. Results

Ⅴ. Discussions and Conclusion

References

키워드

영어교육 사회불안 듣기불안 말하기불안 대인관계지향성 가상현실 English Education Social Anxiety Listening Anxiety Speaking Anxiety Interpersonal Orientation Virtual Reality(VR)