EXPLORING THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATIVE ANXIETY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AMONG PAKISTANI STUDENTS

Abstract

This study aimed at exploring the prospects and underlying resolution of the research. It has discovered the conceivable causes of communication apprehension faced by Pakistani students. The research also aims to explore the approaches opted by the students as well as teachers to tackle the anxiety that they have had while interacting in the Lingua Franca that was obviously English either in the context of Foreign or Second Language. The study was purely qualitative in approach and triangulation technique was applied to gather data for strengthening its findings. The researcher developed a questionnaire comprising 12 open-ended questions to accumulate the elaborated responses of the 200 students and 10 teachers. The purposive technique of data sampling was applied by the researcher while considering the participants of the research. The researcher translated the questionnaire tool of data collection for students in Urdu language for their better understanding and giving appropriate responses. But it was quite convenient and easily intelligible for the teachers in the target language. The data was gathered through oral interviews accompanied by direct and participatory observations for further strengthening the outcomes of the research. It has become a longitudinal descriptive case study consisting of six months. The data collected through triangulation technique was integrated and analyzed for drawing findings and conclusion.