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Language Anxiety Among Students of English Language Departments

Prof. Dr. Mohammed Anwar Mahmoud, Doaa Hafez Jassim

Volume: 13 Issue: 2 2023

Abstract:

The current study aimed to identify the linguistic anxiety among students of the English language departments at the University of Baghdad according to the variable (gender - and grade), the study sample consisted of (212) male and female students from the English Language Department at the College of Education Ibn Rushd, by (58) males (154) females, were selected in a stratified random proportional method, and the researcher used the correlational descriptive approach in her study.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v13i02.007

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