Table 4: The means of the items comprising the test anxiety questionnaire

<p>The purpose of the study was twin: to investigate the test-taking anxiety of ESP students of<br> Engineering taking a course in general English and to shed light on the relationship between the<br> students&#39; test-taking anxiety and their performance on a general English test. To this end, the first<br> phase of the study was devoted to the reliability of the two instruments employed to address the<br> research question: (a) the anxiety questionnaire (TAS), and (b) the general English test. The second<br> or main phase of the study was concerned with the four research question. In this section, the results<br> of analyses related to the two phases are presented.</p> <p>Table 4 also shows the mean of each of 37 items comprising the TAS.</p>