Journal Review: ‘Teachers 'Strategies for Decreasing Students' Anxiety Levels to Improve Their Communicative Skills'

Name : Dinda Riani

Class : 4E

NPM : 1910631060013

Journal : ‘Teachers 'Strategies for Decreasing Students' Anxiety Levels to Improve Their Communicative Skills’ by Takako Inada

Journal Review

 

This journal entitled "Teachers 'Strategies for Decreasing Students' Anxiety Levels to Improve Their Communicative Skills" was written by Takako Inada and published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education.

The aim of this study was to investigate how teachers managed students' levels of anxiety, which may lead to an improvement in their communication skills. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with six teachers. Various strategies that teachers could use to decrease students' levels of anxiety were introduced. The sample used in this article is 6 English teachers in Japan with the research method semi-structured individual interviews.

The results obtained from this study are the teachers 'suggestions for decreasing the students' levels of anxiety including creating risk-free classrooms (including decreasing the levels of stress), increasing opportunities for speaking practice (including more pair / group work), and ways. of using classroom dynamics.

The conclusion of this study is the aim of this study was to examine the actions that teachers were implementing to decrease students' levels of anxiety and to create a less anxious classroom environment during student-centered communicative university lessons in Japan. Six teachers participated in the semi-structured individual interviews. The suggestions based on the results of the survey could be effective for decreasing students' levels of anxiety and creating a better relationship between teachers and students. It may be important to ensure that students have a successful experience, to encourage students to be independent learners and take ownership of their learning, and to persuade students that making an effort is more praiseworthy than is being accomplished from the beginning. It is hoped that teachers can ultimately assist students to improve their TL communicative skills by following these suggestions.

The main advantage of this article is that the topic is very interesting. This article also discusses a problem that is often faced by teachers around the world, namely student anxiety about communication skills. This article is not only about education, but about student psychology as well. The language used can be understood well. But, this article also has drawbacks, the use of tables that should be made neater.