The relationship between trait anxiety and writing anxiety among foreign language students at the university of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria

Abstract EN

There has been an increasing interest in both positive and negative affect in foreign languages research during the last two decades.

Anxiety as a negative construct with its two main divisions, trait; as part of someone's personality, and state; as transitory feeling in specific situations, has been investigated independently in numerous EFL research.

This study aims at investigating the relationship between trait anxiety and anxiety in writing.

Two Likert scales have been addressed to 40 second year students from the department of English at the University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria.

The first, to identify the amount of trait anxiety among students.

Similarly, the second, to assess students' anxiety level in writing.

The results show that students have an average level in trait anxiety as well as writing anxiety mainly test anxiety.

In this limited scope, the statistics of correlations indicate a positive association between the two variables