The Relationship Between Self-Control And Anxiety In English Study Of Science And Engineering Students

This research mainly focuses on the relationship between self-control and anxiety in college English study. Based on the physical and mental characteristics, the suitability of their social role and the demand of research status, this research took freshmen of science and engineering as study subjects. Then, the author gives a partial overview about self-control and anxiety developed in different countries at home and abroad. The operational definition of self-control ability in college English study was formed in the enlightenment of the predecessors’ research results. Under the guidance of this concept the author tracked the change of self-control and anxiety in English study of science and engineering students enrolled in2012at X university twice (the first time--the university admission, another time--one year after the admission), combining quantitative method (questionnaire survey and statistical analysis) with qualitative method (in-depth interview and case study), integrating narrative study during the one-year tracking study.Firstly, this paper introduces the purpose and the significance of this research, core conceptions, literature review, thoughts and methods, research priorities and possible innovations. Secondly, the author reviewed previous research results and mainly summed up and combed the concept of self-control, metacognition, anxiety and narrative study, and focused on introducing the relationship between self-control and anxiety in college English study. Besides, the author elaborated the approach to apply psychology application technology--metacognition intervention technique to train and improve self-control as well as reduce anxiety in college English study. According to the demand of qualitative research,18freshmen enrolled in2012at X university were selected as the subjects of in-depth interview, based on which the background and reasons for the formation of self-control and anxiety in college English study were further explored. Finally, the author put forward the main conclusions of this study, countermeasures and suggestions.The study found:(1) College English Test Band4/6(CET4/6) has strong function of direction for freshmen of X university, who usually regard the pass in CET4/6as the main goal of college English study as well as the sign of success in English study. (2) Practical approaches to self-control adopted by freshmen at X university in the process of English study are in good agreement with the four theoretical dimensions of theoretical conception in this paper. Anxiety of English study of freshmen at X university had objective existence in student groups, which noted significantly as examination anxiety and communication anxiety. Self reflection and self-actualization had more prominent performance in self-control of college English study. Anxiety has extremely significant negative correlation with self-control.(3) With the help of the metacognition intervention technique, participants can regulate and control their own behavior habits, enhancing self-control ability, breaking away from the restriction of personal development, reducing the foreign language learning anxiety, and their English learning achievements have more obvious improvement.