Teacher’s Anxiety: A Phenomenological Study in Pakistan

Abstract

This research is based on a study explores the experiences of non-native pre-service English teachers   confronting   anxiety   in   the   classroom.   The   study   enquired   how   the anxiety   is   experienced   by   the   non-native   pre-service   English   teachers while teaching English language. And the reasons behind how this anxiety affects their performance as the key questions were investigated in the study. For which interviews were conducted as an instrument to collect the data. The sample used for the study was of 10 non-native pre-service English teachers graduated from private universities of Karachi city. The findings revealed that pre-service English teachers show low performance. The interviews transcriptions as data for the study were analyzed by thematic analysis of the responses inculcating the reasons behind anxiety in pre-service teachers, i.e. Lack of Vocabulary & Feeling anxious, Lack of Experience & Feeling   Insecure, worrying   about Fluency in English, Communicative apprehension, and Negligence of Institutions regarding workload on teachers. Besides, the study paved recommendations for further futuristic study pertinent to the phenomenological study of pre-service English teachers.