Anxiety factors of teacher training course students in teaching elementary school English

This paper reviews anxiety of elementary school teachers who teach elementary school English and reports anxiety factors of university students who are trained to teach elementary school English. Results of our surveys indicate that about 90 percent of the university students in the elementary school teacher training course have anxiety in teaching elementary school English due to low self-confidence in their English ability and fluency. It is reported that teacher training course students have the following seven anxiety factors in teaching elementary school English: 1) Their English ability, 2) their English pronunciation ability, 3) the content of elementary school English class, 4) interactive English teaching to children, 5) communication with Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs), 6) the level of elementary school English, and 7) the English ability that elementary school students expect their teachers to have.