Browsing by Author "Zaouia, Bouchra"

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    Investigating learners’ attitudes towards the effect of language anxiety on sight translation tasks
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Brek, Bouchra; Zaouia, Bouchra; Merabet, Mohamed Hamza
    Language anxiety is defined as being afraid, nervous, and embarrassed when learning a foreign language. Previous studies have dealt with it in relation to consecutive interpreting and simultaneous interpreting; yet, only few researches have focused on its effect on students' performance in sight translation tasks. Therefore, this thesis seeks to understand and investigate learners' perceptions towards the impact of language anxiety on sight translation tasks. A modified version of Horwitz et al (1986) questionnaire provided quantitative data from 55 third year didactics participants from the English department at Larbi Ben M'hidi University. The findings indicated that the informants hold negative attitudes for the effect of language anxiety on ST tasks. Moreover, the study revealed that the students feel anxious more in translation module than in the other modules. The research also offers set of strategies for teachers and learners to cope with language anxiety. As a result of this investigation, recommendations were identified for future researches.