A Study on the Anxiety of Multimedia-Assisted English Learning for Junior High Student in Indonesia

• Main Author: SYARIFAH RAHMI
• Other Authors: Liu, Ming-Chou
• Format: Others
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47373133795971754052

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 課程設計與潛能開發學系 === 101 === The primary purpose of the study is to investigate, first, to know whether multimedia is able to reduce students’ anxiety in learning English and second, to know whether multimedia is effective in assisting students to learn English. FLCAS, the set questionnaires used to gather the data in this study, was developed by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986). They set of questionnaires consists of 33 items, divided into three components; communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. The researcher has also used interviews to complement the quantitative results. The subjects are the junior high school students divided into two groups, with 37 students as the experimental group, the other 36 as the control group. For the multimedia group, PowerPoint, videos, and pictures were applied to reduce FLCAS, and for the control group only traditional teaching approaches such as textbooks and blackboards were used. t-test was used to analyze the data. The result indicates that there is no significant difference between experimental group and control group in learning English. Males’ students have less anxiety than female students in learning English. Multimedia cannot assist the students in reducing the anxiety.