scholarly journals Examining Levels and Factors of Speaking Anxiety among EFL Libyan English Undergraduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Abdalaziz M. Toubot ◽  
Goh Hock Seng ◽  
Azizah Binti Atan Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Confidence Factor ◽  
High Level

This study aims at investigating EFL the fourth-year students’ level of speaking anxiety. Also, the study investigates the main three factors (communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation and low self-confidence) that contribute to increasing speaking anxiety among EFL learners. The Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety Scale (FLSAS) has been adapted to collect quantitative data and specifically measure speaking anxiety. The sample of this study was 300 fourth-year English department students at three universities in Libya. The findings of this study revealed that students experienced a moderate to high level of EFL speaking anxiety. Additionally, the findings of the study revealed that the low self-confidence factor received the highest average followed by fear of negative evaluation, and communication apprehension factors.

scholarly journals How Fear Affects EFL Acquisition: The Case of “Terminale” Students in Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Solange SWIRI TUMASANG
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Language Class ◽  
High Level

Despite the growing interest in investigating and exploring potential causes and the manifestation of language anxiety amongst EFL learners, the potential sources of this complicated phenomenon have not been widely researched and identified in the Cameroonian context. Horwitz and Young (1991, P.14) state, “we have been truly surprised at the number of students who express anxiety and distress in their language class”. This paper sets out to investigate the potential causes of fear, its manifestation and the possible recommendation to salvage this problem that significantly affects EFL acquisition in final year secondary students of the French subsystem (Terminale) of education in Cameroon. The theoretical framework for this study is the foreign language anxiety scale as established by Horwitz et al. (1986). Data collection involves participant observation and a questionnaire administered to 100 students. The findings revealed that Cameroonian EFL learners experience a very high level of fear, ranging from communication apprehension and fear of a negative evaluation. The conclusion points out that fear is due to the non-mastery of basic structures and therefore questions the appropriateness of the approach used in teaching EFL in Cameroon. The paper proposes possible strategies to effectively teach EFL that will reduce language anxiety and promote self-confidence in the learners. Fighting against erroneous beliefs such as “C’est Dieu qui donne l’anglais” (English is a gift from God) will also help students get more implicated in learning English.

scholarly journals The Sources of Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety of Iranian English Language Learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firooz Sadighi ◽  
Mehdi Dastpak
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Affective Factors

Foreign language learning anxiety is one of the affective factors which influence language learning negatively. It has several sources and different types. The present study aimed at investigating the sources of foreign language speaking anxiety of Iranian EFL learners. To do so, 154 EFL learners participated in the study. They were required to fill out a foreign language anxiety questionnaire which was developed based on the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986). The results of the study indicated that “fear of making mistakes”, “fear of negative evaluation”, and “lack of vocabulary knowledge” were the main factors which caused anxiety among students. Some strategies are recommended for the students to use in order to cope with the anxiety-provoking factors. 

Eglish Speaking Anxiety Level And Major Component Of Anxiety Of Undergraduate Engineering Students At Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Tamil Nadu: A Descriptive Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 704-715
Author(s):  
Mr. Solomon V Anbuchelvan ◽  
◽  
Lt. Dr. N. Mythili ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Exam Anxiety

Speaking in English causes anxiety in learners’ mind and it acts as a filter. Anxiety impedes speaking in English which is a problem for the learners. This paper is intended to address the problem found in Erode Sengunthar Engineering College students. The study examines the level of anxiety and its major factor that filters the performance while speaking in English inside the classroom. 50 under graduate engineering students attended the study. For data collection a series of questionnaire of FLCAS developed by Horwitz in 1986, based on the Likert 5 point scale was administered. It also focuses on the performance of pupils most of whom feel more anxious about foreign language. The findings of this research reveals that more students are moderately affected . More importantly, the results show that students are extremely concerned about fear of negative evaluation (3.41) and the Exam Anxiety (3.27).

scholarly journals ANXIETY LEVEL IN ENGLISH SPEAKING AMONG AHMAD DAHLAN STUDENTS

Lire Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Megawati Basri ◽  
Fahmi Djaguna ◽  
Balqis Husain
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

One language that is a communication tool in various parts of the world is English; English has become a language that must be mastered by the community, especially students. However, not everyone can easily speak English. The purpose of this research is to know the level of anxiety when they speak in English at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan students. This research uses a qualitative method. One hundred and twenty seven students were selected as the participants of the questionnaire; the tool used for this study was adapted from Horwitz, Horwitz & Cope (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The result of this study was showed that the majority of the students (n=103) were found students had a moderate level of anxiety, one student had a very high level of anxiety and thirteen students were found to had a high level of anxiety. The level of anxiety by dimensions, such as the Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) ranks third. Meanwhile, Communication Apprehension (CA) and Test Anxiety (TA) are significantly dominant performance anxieties.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF SPEECH ANXIETY AMONG ESL LEARNERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Hanim Rahmat ◽  
Amirul Mukmin Abu Bakar ◽  
Akmal Haziq Zamri ◽  
Aida Nasuha Roslan ◽  
Ain Zuhraa Zakaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Public University ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Speech Anxiety ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Esl Learners

This research investigated English as a second language (ESL) speaking anxiety faced by university students. Data was obtained through a group of 44 students in the undergraduate course, in public university in Malaysia through questionnaires in a Google Form. This study examined reasons of anxiety, types of anxiety, and methods to cope with the anxiety. The instrument is a questionnaire. The data was analysed using SPSS. The result of the analysis revealed that ESL students suffered from English language speaking anxiety. Furthermore, fear of negative evaluation and lack of confidence was proven to be the source of ESL speaking anxiety. Additionally, different students have different types of anxiety such trait anxiety and situation anxiety. In order to cope with anxiety, development of self-confidence is important. Preparation is another way to relieve language anxiety for instance implementation of roleplay or simulations. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0740/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Investigating Anxiety in an Indonesian EFL Speaking Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
RAIS ABIN ◽  
Hariadi Syam
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Abstract.  This research aimed to explore the kinds of anxiety experienced by the students in learning speaking, and to examine the causes of the anxiety in learning speaking. This research employed descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this research were 36 students consisting 19 females and 17 males selected to be research participants through conveniently selected sampling. The data of this research were collected by online questionnaire, and interview. The obtained data were analyzed in three major phases namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The result of the research revealed three kinds of anxiety experienced by the students in learning speaking namely trait anxiety, situational-specific anxiety, and state anxiety. Furthermore, the causes of speaking anxiety were communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation.

scholarly journals SPEAKING ANXIETY LEVEL OF EFL STUDENTS AT TENTH GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 LUBUK SIKAPING

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Yola Ariani ◽  
Eliza Eliza ◽  
Merry Prima Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speak Up

This research has been done because the researcher found some problems in speaking at the tenth grade at SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping. The first problem was the students nervous when they were asked to speak up. The second problem was the students had lack of confidence. The third problem was the students had a felt panic when their teacher gave test. The last problem was the students felt afraid the teacher inform the score of the meeting. This study aimed to find out the speaking anxiety level at tenth grade SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping.The design of this research was a descriptive quantitative research.The population of this research were tenth grade students that consist of 134 students. The students were divided into four classes.The researcher took 25 % of the population by using random sampling technique to determine the sample because the population is more than one hundred students and there are 34 students of this research. To collect the data, researcher used questionnaire to find out speaking anxiety level of the students.The result researcher found the data there were 3 components of speaking anxiety. The consist of communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. It was found that 89 total score of the students had moderately low anxiety level in communication apprehension. Then 94 total score of the students had moderate anxiety level in test anxiety. The last result found that 88 total score of the students had moderately low anxiety level in fear of negative evaluation. In conclusion, the students speaking anxiety level at the tenth grade at SMAN 2 Lubuk Sikaping based on those three components above was 90 total score which mean the students anxiety level in speaking was in moderate level.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Factors that Affect Students Anxiety in Speaking for Presentation Class (A Study of the Fourth Semester Students at the English Education Study Program of University of Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
Nadia Agustin ◽  
Mulyadi . ◽  
Elfrida .
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Class A ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Academic Year

This research attemted to find out the factors that affect students speaking anxiety in speaking for presentation class. This research was carried out by employing descriptive quantitative design. The population of this research was the fourth semester students of English Education Study Program of University of Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. The samples of this research were taken by using random sampling tehcnique, the total of the sample was 57 students. The data were collected by questionnaire consisted of 29 questions related to the anxiety. The results of this study showed that the students mostly had the mildly anxiety. There were three factors that causing the anxiety of the students in speaking; Fear of Negative Evaluation (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 3.12), Communication Apprehension (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 3.09), and Test Anxiety (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 2.89). In conclusion, there were three factors that students speaking anxiety in speaking for presentation class  and the most dominant factors is the Fear of Negative Evaluation

scholarly journals Exploring Fear of Negative Evaluation in Foreign Language Anxiety: Photovoice of Undergraduates in Speaking Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anindyastuti Wardhani
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
Learning English

Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is a common situation happens in EFL classroom. This phenomenon usually causes the students’ anxiety while they are learning English. The previous study proved that language learners performed significantly better on oral foreign language if they were in less anxious situations. Students’ unwillingness for participating speaking activities in the classroom caused by their assumption of being judged negatively and lack of mastering the speaking skill. The objective of this research is to explore whether there is foreign language anxiety problem among Indonesian undergraduates in speaking class. The researchers collected and processed the data using Photovoice. The participants of this research were 14 undergraduate students in the 5th semester. The findings indicated that the students have anxiety during performing speaking activity in classroom. As the implication, teachers can facilitate the students by creating a conducive, comfortable, and non-threatening class to help alleviating the students' foreign language anxiety.

scholarly journals Reducing speaking anxiety in EFL classrooms: An explanatory mixed-methods study

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-261
Author(s):  
Elçin Ölmezer Öztürk ◽  
Gökhan Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Analysis Scheme ◽  
Explanatory Mixed Methods ◽  
The Impact

This study outlines the impact of a process enriched with mini-speeches, presentations, and scaffolded feedback on EFL learners’ foreign language speaking anxiety. The participants included 52 university freshman students and the data were collected during an oral 14-week communication course. For quantitative data, the foreign language speaking anxiety scale (FLSAS) was administered as pre and post tests and the qualitative data included reflection reports and a focus group interview at the end of the semester. The data derived from the scale were analyzed through a paired-sample t-test and the qualitative data were analyzed using a content analysis scheme. The findings revealed a significant impact of the aforementioned activities, leading to around thirty percent reduction in participants’ EFL speaking anxiety. Highlighting the effectiveness of feedback sessions, the participants suggested that the major gains of this process were a) increased self-confidence, b) increased opportunities to speak, and c) learning from their own mistakes, all of which helped them become less anxious learners. In line with these findings, the study offers several suggestions for both practitioners and research purposes.

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