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INTERPLAY OF COVID19 INDUCED STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON STUDENTS LANGUAGE LEARNING A MIXED APPROACH

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-III).01      10.31703/grr.2020(V-III).01      Published : Sep 2020

Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach

Abstract

    The present research explores the interplay between COVID induced stress and its probable effects on students' language learning. It hopes to demonstrate to what extent students experienced stress owing to quarantine. How that stress affected their language learning and what probable strategies they devised in order to tackle that stress. Furthermore, it also tries to see whether female students experienced greater stress as compared to male students. The theoretical insights for this have been drawn from the 'Transactional Model of Stress' developed by Lazarus and Folkman in 1984. The method chosen for this paper was a mixed approach, including close-ended questionnaires using 'Google forms' and open-ended call interviews through WhatsApp. The results t found shows that above 90% of learners see COVID as a stimulus of stress and fear, disturbing them psychologically. Almost 66% of learners are of the view that females become more stressed than males. And round about 84% agreed to the fact that COVID is a cause of stress which can be coped and managed by adopting some effective strategies. In this study, it was found that the stress and language learning are dependent variables and COVID is an independent variable which has caused stress, leading to negatively affected language learning. The findings of this study can offer a larger scope in understanding the interplay of human stress and anxiety with the environmental stress other than COVID-19 as well.

    COVID-19, Quarantine, Psychological Stress, Anxiety, Digital Literacy, Language Learning, Environmental Stress, Online Teaching in Pakistan

    (1) Mamona Yasmin Khan
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Women University Multan, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Fariha Chaudhary
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Aqsa Choudhry
    M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Women University Multan, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Khan, M. Y., Chaudhary, F., & Choudhry, A. (2020). Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach. Global Regional Review, V(III), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-III).01

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    CHICAGO : Khan, Mamona Yasmin, Fariha Chaudhary, and Aqsa Choudhry. 2020. "Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach." Global Regional Review, V (III): 1-12 doi: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-III).01

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    HARVARD : KHAN, M. Y., CHAUDHARY, F. & CHOUDHRY, A. 2020. Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach. Global Regional Review, V, 1-12.

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    MHRA : Khan, Mamona Yasmin, Fariha Chaudhary, and Aqsa Choudhry. 2020. "Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach." Global Regional Review, V: 1-12

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    MLA : Khan, Mamona Yasmin, Fariha Chaudhary, and Aqsa Choudhry. "Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach." Global Regional Review, V.III (2020): 1-12 Print.

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    OXFORD : Khan, Mamona Yasmin, Chaudhary, Fariha, and Choudhry, Aqsa (2020), "Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach", Global Regional Review, V (III), 1-12

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    TURABIAN : Khan, Mamona Yasmin, Fariha Chaudhary, and Aqsa Choudhry. "Interplay of COVID-19 induced Stress and Psychological Effects on Students' Language Learning: A Mixed Approach." Global Regional Review V, no. III (2020): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-III).01