TY - JOUR
T1 - High School Students’ Mathematics Anxiety
T2 - Discouragement, Abuse, Fear, and Dilemma Induced through Adults’ Verbal Behaviour
AU - Budhathoki, Boj Bahadur
AU - Acharya, Bed Raj
AU - Belbase, Shashidhar
AU - Kshetree, Mukunda Prakash
AU - Khanal, Bishnu
AU - Panthi, Ram Krishna
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the research participants for their voluntary participation in the study. Also, they would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on the manuscript.
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PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Mathematics anxiety in students seems to be one of the most common phenomena in mathematics teaching and learning worldwide. However, mathematics anxiety induced through the verbal behaviour of other people is an understudied area in mathematics education. This paper aimed to investigate the influence of the verbal behaviour of older people on the students’ interest and choice in studying mathematics. Ten grade-nine students studying in a high school in Kathmandu participated in semi-structured interviews. A descriptive qualitative research design, followed by a thematic analysis of the data through primary, secondary, and tertiary coding, identified four major themes related to the verbal behaviour of elders that induced mathematics anxiety in the students. These themes were discouragement, abuse, fear, and dilemma due to adults’ verbal behaviour when choosing mathematics as an optional subject in high school. The study results have educational implications in terms of the way teachers and parents express their viewpoints and interest in mathematics and related subjects may affect students’ interests and attitudes toward mathematics.
AB - Mathematics anxiety in students seems to be one of the most common phenomena in mathematics teaching and learning worldwide. However, mathematics anxiety induced through the verbal behaviour of other people is an understudied area in mathematics education. This paper aimed to investigate the influence of the verbal behaviour of older people on the students’ interest and choice in studying mathematics. Ten grade-nine students studying in a high school in Kathmandu participated in semi-structured interviews. A descriptive qualitative research design, followed by a thematic analysis of the data through primary, secondary, and tertiary coding, identified four major themes related to the verbal behaviour of elders that induced mathematics anxiety in the students. These themes were discouragement, abuse, fear, and dilemma due to adults’ verbal behaviour when choosing mathematics as an optional subject in high school. The study results have educational implications in terms of the way teachers and parents express their viewpoints and interest in mathematics and related subjects may affect students’ interests and attitudes toward mathematics.
KW - discouragement
KW - fear of mathematics
KW - Mathematics anxiety
KW - verbal behaviour
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U2 - 10.26803/ijlter.21.6.15
DO - 10.26803/ijlter.21.6.15
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135238530
SN - 1694-2493
VL - 21
SP - 247
EP - 269
JO - International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
JF - International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
IS - 6
ER -