DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH ANXIETY SCALE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

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

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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