RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND TEACHER BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY LEVEL LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Anxiety may be found in teachers are subjected to various problems including depression, and loss of patience with students. Language anxiety that a teacher has to face the students by managing the classroom with proper vocabulary and also by increasing their speaking skills. Language anxiety is the feeling of uneasiness worry, nervousness and apprehension experienced when learning a second language. Teacher behaviour is a behavior normally performed by a teacher related to the students in the different situation. The teacher plays a major role in a classroom, so the teacher behaviour depends mainly on students. The secondary school teachers teach one or more subject areas to students of about 13 to 18 years of age at a secondary school. The research study focused on language anxiety and teacher behaviour of secondary level language teachers. Normative survey method was employed to collect the data through questionnaire by adopting simple random sampling technique. The questionnaire was constructed and validated by the researchers and administered on secondary level language teachers. The sample size of this study comprises 100 secondary level language teachers in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. To fulfill the objective of the study is to assess the language anxiety of secondary level language teachers and to find the language anxiety and its dimension such as Anxiety in performance, Self perception, Self improvement of secondary level language teachers based on gender and to find out the teacher behaviour teachers and its dimension such as Expression, Teaching aids, Rapport of secondary level language based on gender. Percentage analysis and Pearson – product moment correlation of co efficient was used for analyzing the data. The results indicate that there is significant relationship between language anxiety and teacher behaviour of secondary level language teachers.