English-Phobia
Phobia: Causes and Remedies
Mrs. Sandeep Kaur, Mrs. Gurpreet Kaur, Ms. Jyotsna Sharma
Assistant Professor, DAV College of Education for wome
women, Amritsar, Punjab,
Punjab India
ABSTRACT
The article examines the causes and remedies of poor languagee learning process, no doubt, is very
English teaching and learning in primary and post post- disturbing experience for many students. Examiners
primary schools and recommends measures to in general have been involved in exploring,
overcome them. Among the root causes of English recounting and sufficiently measuring debilitating
phobia in schools are the imbalanced ed skills, poor factors in foreign languages.
anguages. Gregerse and Horwitz,
examination system, lack of effective teaching aids , (2002) attribute thatt constant disturbance or
shortage of qualified English teachers, lack of nervousness has hostile affects on language
adequate in-service
service teaching programmes, lack of acquisition. So there is need to tackle the problems
proper incentives for English teachers and an inherent related to oral competency .Young (1991) found that
fear of mathematics. The study revealed
vealed that english
english- peers experience supreme fear in speaking the target
phobia exists among students, which is characterized language before, others in comparison
omparison of writing and
by hesitation or shyness, feverish feelings in English reading proposes that to handle with language
class and difficulty of expression. Highlighted causes problems first there is need to recognize the speaking
include poor student-teacher
teacher relationship, non anxieties, negative evaluation and other factors which
conducive environment for English class among generate foreign language learning anxieties.
others. Genuine efforts should be made by all
stakeholders in solving the problem to improve The fear of English
student’s achievement English.
English iss one of the major subjects in the school
education which is considered as the toughest subject
Keywords: Causes, Remedies English, English
English-
in existing subjects. Many school going students
phobia, students
scarred of the subject like scaring from an evil. In
India, the fear of English is spreading and students
INTRODUCTION
think they will fail in the subject but we believe if
Despite the importance of English language in our students have ethics to learn English than it can be the
society, it still suffers a great set-back
back in all of our best or favorite subject. Many people have a deep-deep
institutions of learning. The secondary education is seated fear of English and English tutors see a lot of
not left out of this educational/ language trauma. scared students. Some students have problem with
grammar, some have complications with vocabulary,
It has been discovered that most complaints by some have phobia of spoken English. Many of people
students and teachers of English language is the think of English as an extremely tough subject that
alarming rate at which the class- size increases.The cannot be mastered. This negative attitude stops them
truth of the matter is that the first curriculum pri
priority from focusing on the subject/problem which they are
is language. Therefore English language as far as tackling. This increases the speculation in their minds
India is concerned provides the connecting tissue by that English is too tough for them.
which all other subjects are pursued. According to
Hewitt and Stephenson (2012) teachers and
researchers are well known for many years that
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