English language anxiety and the solutions to overcome such : A research done amongst under graduate students
Keywords:
Anxiety, EnglishAbstract
Anxiety comprises worry and emotionality‖ (Morris, Davis and Hutchings, 1981). Worry refers to cognitive aspects like negative expectations and cognitive concerns about oneself, the situation at hand, and possible consequences‖. Emotionality refers to one‘s perceptions of the physiological-affective elements of the anxiety experience, that is, indications of automatic arousal and unpleasant feeling states such as nervousness and tension‖ According to Spielberger (1983) anxiety is the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the automatic nervous system‖ .
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