Table 1: Reliability of the test anxiety questionnaire

The purpose of the study was twin: to investigate the test-taking anxiety of ESP students of
Engineering taking a course in general English and to shed light on the relationship between the
students' test-taking anxiety and their performance on a general English test. To this end, the first
phase of the study was devoted to the reliability of the two instruments employed to address the
research question: (a) the anxiety questionnaire (TAS), and (b) the general English test. The second
or main phase of the study was concerned with the four research question. In this section, the results
of analyses related to the two phases are presented.

The TAS: The present study used the TAS (Sarason, 1975) [27] to determine the students'
test-taking anxiety. The use of Cronbach’s alpha showed the internal consistency of .876.