Language Anxiety Levels in Urban, Suburban and Rural Secondary Grammar School Students
The main purpose of this study is to investigate language anxiety levels in Polish secondary grammar school students from urban (N 223) suburban (N 48) and rural areas (N 122) The results show that rural students suffer from significantly higher levels of anxiety over the length of their secondary school education when compared to their urban and suburban peers. These results confirm the findings in the literature of the field, further demonstrating that social and educational deprivation of rural adolescents continues to prevail. However, this study also shows that the language anxiety levels of all the study participants significantly decrease towards the end of their secondary school education, irrespective of their residential location.