Abstract            Volume:7  Issue-11  Year-2019         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

The main aim of this study is to compare the effects of foreign language anxiety between male and female students in EFL classroom and to suggest the essential strategies the students and teachers employ to cope with the negative effect of foreign language anxiety. The study was conducted at Wolaita Sodo Secondary School on the sample of grade 9 students. Mixed research design was employed in this study. The sample sizes of the study were 25 students in the academic year 2009 E.C. The students were selected using a random sampling for questionnaire and purposive sampling was employed for interview. To collect data from the sample group, questionnaire and interview were used. Data were analyzed quantitatively by percentage, and qualitatively by description data. The findings indicated that there has been a significant foreign language anxiety difference observed between male and female students; female students were more anxious than males because most of them needed help from their fellow students and teacher as coping strategies of anxiety, whereas male students participate in class with a positive attitude to cope with language anxiety. Again both male and female students need more practice to speak English confidently. There anxiety level is the same unless they practice to speak in English in advance.  In addition, foreign language anxiety is a common debilitating feeling which affects students in a variety of ways: the students identified a multitude of variables such as low English proficiency, lack of practice, difficulty of the task, lack of confidence, fear of making mistakes, and incomprehensible input as factors provoke foreign language anxiety.

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