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THE EFFECT OF PMI STRATEGY ON IRAQI EFL PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ANXIETY

Mohammed Fadhil Abbas, Prof. Shaimaa Abdulbaqi Al-Bakri, Ph.D.

Volume: 9 Issue: 4 2019

Abstract:

Anxiety is the subjective feeling of anxiety, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the autonomic apprehensive gadget (Spielberger, 1983). It plays an important role in English foreign language classes and contributes to reducing learners’ oral performance to proceed and develop. The problem exists among ESL/EFL learners from the beginning to more advanced levels. These learners wonder why they cannot speak English well because their compulsive efforts do not lead to their intended performance. The current study aims at finding out the effect of PMI strategy on Iraqi EFL preparatory school students' anxiety. A non-randomized pretest-posttest control group has been adopted. The sample of the study consists of (63) students of Iraqi EFL 5th preparatory school, (31) students for experimental group and (32) students for the control group, the academic year (2018- 2019). The instrument of the study is speaking anxiety scale which have been exposed to jury members in the field of ELT, Linguistics and literature to verify their validity. The results of the study show that there is a statistical significance difference between the experimental and control group in their anxiety performance which means PMI strategy promoted a learning environment that provided opportunities for exploring and investigating ways of understanding their roles as speakers, that’s to give them the opportunity to play many roles as (thinkers, speakers, speechmakers, and lecturers, etc.,).

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