Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.138
ENDOGENOUS MECHANISM OF BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNING ANXIETY
Abstract
Many business English learners suffer from fear or anxiety in the course of learning. From the perspective of teaching practice, this paper empirically analyses business English anxiety and its influencing factors, and discusses how business English anxiety affects the teaching of business English. The research data were collected through a questionnaire survey on three universities at different levels in China. The respondents cover both English majors and non-English majors. Through statistical analysis of the data, it is concluded that the business English anxiety of college students is influenced to different degrees by endogenous factors like the self-efficacy, motivation, attribution and view of business English; Business English anxiety is mainly influenced by learner factors, followed by teacher factors, other factors, and peer factors; there are significant differences in Business English learning anxiety between different genders and between different language levels, but no significant differences between English majors and non-English majors. The research findings shed important new lights on business English learning and teaching.
Keywords
Business English, Learning Anxiety, Endogenous Mechanism, Questionnaire.