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DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH
ANXIETY SCALE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
STUDENTS
This research project report is submit
ion to the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, as a partial
fulfillment for the degree of M.S in Educational and Counseling Psychology
BY
Rovaiya Sultana
Examination Roll no.
Registration No.
Session:
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
Mahjabeen Haque
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Dhaka
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
‘Seek knowledge from the cradle to
the grave”
-Prophet Muhammad
first and foremost I thank the
Almighty Allah for granting me the strength, health, courage and inspiration to
prosper in this Endeavour and thus enriching my knowledge.’ Verily, God does
not change [a] people’s condition unless they change their own selves.’ HE is
indeed the unseen force behind making this study a success.
It is a great pleasure to pay my
regards and express profound gratitude to my project supervision Mahjabeen
Haque, professor of the department of psychology, University of Dhaka, whose
active support and persistence guidance provided me every experience and
exquisite perception of all the technical knowledge in preparing this project.
Her encouragement and constant supervision helped me to complete this study successfully.
It would have been quite impossible to carry out this study without her help,
direction and co-operation.
lastly I want to thank all my
well-wisher who help me and give support in conduction this study.
Rovaiya Sultana
Department of Educational and consigning
psychology
University of Dhaka
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was
to develop a scale to measure English anxiety of secondary school students. To
do so, 43 items were initially constructed with the help of subject matter
experts and related literature survey. These items were given to seven faculty members of Dhaka
University for judgment. On the basis of judges’ evaluation twenty one items
were dropped and two new items were added totaling 24
