Anxiety in EFL Kuwait: A Case Study of Secondary School Students

Abstract

The current paper focuses on anxiety in an EFL situation of public schools of Kuwait. The sample consisted of 180 students (88 girls and 92 boys). Depending on students’ level of anxiety – on the overall score in Language Anxiety Score – the researcher classified the students into three categories: Highest Level of Anxiety (HLA) scored as high as 14.1%; the Moderate Level of Anxiety students was 17.5%; while the Lowest Level of Anxiety studentsreached 68.4%. Students’ responses to a questionnaire on learning English revealed that theHighest Level of Anxietystudents were more unlikely to exert extra efforts to enhance their language proficiency compared with the Lowest Level of Anxiety students.