Impact of oral exams’ design on reducing anxiety of bilingual primary school students of science

This article aims to explore the impact of using didactic teaching techniques to reduce the levels of anxiety in student’s oral exams. (method= protocol). The selected participants were all sampled from students in the 6th elementary school class, all enrolled in a bilingual program. A pre-post-test...

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Autor: Arancón Rey, María del Pilar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/65158
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/65158
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anxiety
CLIL
Oral exams
Primary education
Protocol
Bilingual education
Ansiedad
AICLE
Exámenes orales
Educación primaria
Protocolo
Educación bilingüe
Descripción
Sumario:This article aims to explore the impact of using didactic teaching techniques to reduce the levels of anxiety in student’s oral exams. (method= protocol). The selected participants were all sampled from students in the 6th elementary school class, all enrolled in a bilingual program. A pre-post-test design was applied to this case study. Anxiety data were collected by students who felt anxiety during an oral test before applying the protocol and afterwards, using the 33-item questionnaire (Appendix 1). After implementation and the development of the procedure designed to reduce anxiety, additional data were collected to measure the impact of the protocol. The results showed that it had a significant impact on anxiety reduction. The use of this protocol could be useful on elementary school students' learning but also for students in other classes and to facilitate further research. Keywords: anxiety, CLIL, oral exams, Primary education, protocol, Bilingual education.