Amalan Kerohanian dan Kaitannya dengan Kebimbangan Bahasa dalam kalangan Penuntut Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama di Malaysia. (Malay)

Language anxiety is one of the feelings associated with human psychology. These feelings arise in response to a situation or an unintended consequence. Usually language anxiety experienced by students when learning foreign languages which affects their language learning performance. Although anxiety should exist within each individual, it must be controlled so that its existence does not harm the student himself.Therefore, the aims of this study were to determine the level of spiritual practices and the level of language anxiety. Also to identify the correlation of spiritual practices with language anxiety in Arabic language learning classes. This quantitative survey was conducted using the spiritual practices questionnaire and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale. There were 399 respondens involved who are currently studying at Islamic Secondary School in Malaysia. Descriptive and inference analysis were used to analyse the data and obtain the result. The findings indicated that the respondents' spiritual practices are at a high level but the language anxiety level was moderate. In addition, there is a significant negative correlation between the students' spiritual practices with their language anxiety levels (r= -0.273, p=0.00). Therefore, this study proves that spiritual practice can addressing language anxiety issues experienced by students in schools and at the same time to provide added value to the existing body of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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