An Analysis of College English Teachers’ Research Anxiety and the Suggestions for Their Sustainable Research Development

Abstract

With the development and progress of society and colleges and universities and higher research requirements, College English teachers’ research anxiety and pressure is increasing day by day. In this paper, the self-compiled survey with questionnaires and interviews of college English teachers’ research anxiety were used to investigate the research anxiety of college English teachers in one city in China, and the statistical software SPSS 19 was conducted for the survey and data analysis to find out both the subjective and objective factors leading to their research anxiety, and propose solutions for college English teachers to adapt and resolve their research anxiety: 1)to create conditions for college English teachers to improve their research ability; 2)improve the university research assessment system to make it more scientific and humanistic; 3)college English teachers’ own adjustments on their research efforts.