RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH • VOLUME 36 • FEBRUARY 2002 This study addresses issues of English language anxiety in two settings: English as a second language and mainstream classrooms. Participants were 178 middle-school Mexican immigrant students attending school in the U.S. Participants were given the English Language Anxiety Scale, which was analyzed with three statistical tests: pai...

BACKGROUND Arts based approaches have been used in health education in various ways e.g. to develop emotional awareness, reduce anxiety and stress and assess communication skills. OBJECTIVES This evaluation aimed to explore the use of poetry writing as a way for undergraduate nursing students to consider their feelings about important practice issues. METHODS 42 first year undergraduate nur...

Statistics anxiety describes the apprehension that occurs when an individual is exposed to statistics content or problems and instructional situations, or evaluative contexts that deal with statistics. As statistics-anxious individuals always experience anxiety when doing statistics, statistics anxiety describes an enduring, habitual type of anxiety (Onwuegbuzie and Wilson, 2003; Macher et al.,...

Computational thinking (CT) skills are now a key part of everyday life and work, CT has been incorporated into K-12 curricula worldwide. Combining the fundamental concepts with English writing constitutes an innovative sustainable learning strategy. However, few academic studies have examined incorporation writing. frequently generates excessive stress anxiety among students, yet motivation can...