INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF GENDER ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

THIS STUDY AIMED AT INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF GENDER ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY. TO THIS END, A QUESTIONNAIRE NAMED FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM ANXIETY SCALE WAS ADMINISTERED TO STUDENTS. IN TOTAL, 305 STUDENTS OF JAHROM, KAZERUN, AND SHIRAZ UNIVERSITIES PARTICIPATED IN THIS STUDY, 74 MALE STUDENTS AND 231 FEMALE STUDENTS RANGING FROM 18 TO 30 YEARS OF AGE. THE DATA WERE ANALYZED USING STATISTICAL PACKAGE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (SPSS) VERSION 19. STANDARD MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER STUDENTS' GENDER CAN PREDICT THEIR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY. THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT THERE WAS NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES REGARDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY. THEREFORE, GENDER COULD NOT PREDICT FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ANXIETY. THE IMPLICATIONS ARE DISCUSSED AT THE END OF THE STUDY.