A Research On The State Anxiety Of English Teachers Of Twelfth Grade ——Exemplified By The City Of Wuzhou

Teacher’s state anxiety refers to a teacher’s anxious emotion with a short duration and a rapid change in intensity,which is caused by particular working situations.Faced with the fierce pressure of helping students get into college and promotion pressure,many English teachers of twelfth grade feel anxious,which has negative effects on their working efficiency and physical and mental health.Therefore,it is of great realistic significance to figure out the situation of state anxiety undergone by English teachers of twelfth grade,analyze the causative factors of their state anxiety and take corresponding measures to reduce their state anxiety.This study adopts questionnaires to research aided by interview.Two questionnaires are applied in this research.One is Questionnaire of State Anxiety for English Teachers of Twelfth Grade,which includes three dimensions: anxiety resulting from lack of control,anxiety resulting from lack of satisfaction and anxiety resulting from conflict.The reliability of the questionnaire is 0.967 and its validity is 0.925.The other is Questionnaire of Causative Factors of State Anxiety of English Teachers of Twelfth Grade,and it consists of five dimensions: factors from teachers,factors from students,factors from interpersonal relationships,factors from school management and factors from society.The reliability of the questionnaire is 0.975,and the validity is 0.930.These two questionnaires were distributed to 98 English teachers who had taken charge of the work of twelfth grade from two key senior high schools and two ordinary senior high schools in the city of Wuzhou,and all of them did the questionnaire validly.Qualitative research used semi-structured interviews.The interview subjects were two English teachers of twelfth grade from two key senior high schools and two English teachers of twelfth grade from two ordinary senior high schools,and all these English teachers had already filled questionnaires before whose questionnaires were still valid.This study aims to answer the following three questions:（1）What is the overall situation of state anxiety among English teachers of twelfth grade in the city of Wuzhou?（2）What are the differences in state anxiety among English teachers of twelfth grade between key senior high schools and ordinary senior high schools?（3）What are the main factors that cause state anxiety among English teachers of twelfth grade in the city of Wuzhou? Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the collected data,this study obtains the following results:（1）The overall level of the state anxiety of English teachers of twelfth grade is relatively high.（2）The state anxiety of English teachers of twelfth grade of key senior high schools is far higher than that of English teachers of twelfth grade of ordinary senior high schools,whether it is from the aspect of anxiety resulting from lack of control,anxiety resulting from lack of satisfaction or from anxiety resulting from conflict.（3）The following seven aspects of factors cause the state anxiety of English teachers of twelfth grade:expertise,teaching ability and self-efficacy;students’ English levels,classroom performance and students’ evaluation;interpersonal relationships;school management;society’s expectations and evaluation;head teacher management and students’ mental problems.Finally,the following suggestions are put forward by the author on how to relieve the state anxiety for English teachers of twelfth grade and school leaders of senior high schools based on the results of the survey.These suggestions are of great significance to English teachers of twelfth grade in other schools:（1）For teachers,they are expected to learn how to make self-adjustment and boost self-efficacy so as to reduce their state anxiety.（2）For school leaders,they are supposed to improve the welfare system for English teachers of twelfth grade and reduce the frequency of requiring students to take exams.