The Association Between Students' English Language Learning Anxiety And Their Academic Performance.

This paper aims at studying the association between university students' English learning anxiety and their academic performance. The study selected 380 students from universities of the capital of Pakistan, using purposive sampling technique. It utilized the following two instruments to collect the relevant information: Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale poll (FLCAS) in order to decide the students' level of uneasiness on a Likert scale which had five-point; and the academic performance which was managed at the completion of the final exams (CGPA). The quantifiable assessments showed a significant association between the students' academic performance and their Anxiety in their English Classes, the anxiety scale test, and the scale of communication anxiety and the fear of negative assessment. The study concludes that with the increase in the students' anxiety level their academic performance decreases. The research recommends that educational counselor need to intervene regularly to help students in reducing English learning anxiety and thus enhancing their academic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]