• Fatemeh Toktam Barmar

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• Shahryar Sanaee

  Author

For most of the students, learning a language is full of challenges.
Affecting factors in general and anxiety in particular is one of the worthy of
mentioning factors that language learners face in learning a second language.
Anxiety with learning grammar has not received adequate attention in the literature
especially in public and private schools to date. Therefore the present study
endeavors to find out the difference between the anxieties of the EFL learners in the
language class in the two public and private schools. In so doing, the researchers
tried to seek 102 female students’ attitudes on their anxiety in the grammar class in
two public and private schools in Iran. Using an anxiety questionnaire by Horvitz et
al. (1986), the results of the study revealed that in some cases differences could be
observed between the anxieties the learners felt in terms of the schooling system
where they studied. In fact, the school environment could influence the anxiety that
the learners felt.

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