Language anxiety over EFL/ESL Oral exam/test performance: A view from language classrooms at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro Sindh, Pakistan

This study was conducted in order to highlight second/foreign language classroom anxiety over EFL/ESL oral exam/test performance at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. Study was based on quantitative approach. Participants of the study were 227 students, who were selected randomly. Students were given a questionnaire to answer, adopted by Horwitz and Cope (1987) based on five point Likert Scale. Scale is basically designed to measure Communicative Apprehension, Test/Exam Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation, while in this study in order to measure oral Exam/Test performance, the second portion of the Scale "Test/Exam Anxiety" was followed. Moreover the findings of the study concluded that a moderate level of anxiety was prevalent among undergraduates of MUET firstly. Secondly, findings of the study concluded that MUET undergraduates have moderate level of anxiety worrying how they could achieve good grades in each exam. Consequently findings of the study also direct us towards affective assessment of learners at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.