EFL students’ anxiety

The study "The effects of affective factors on ESL/EFL speaking performance" will focus on affective factors by exploring what kinds of affective factors might hinder ESL/EFL speaking performance and presenting some recommendations for teachers and students.

5p tahoaiman 02-01-2024 5 2   Download

This paper is part of the study employing a qualitatively-driven mixed methods research design, including self-designed questionnaires, followed by semi-structured interviews and reflective journals. It explores tertiary EFL student’s perceptions of their changing emotions in oral communication and the effects of emotions on their English speaking.

20p vispacex 16-11-2023 4 2   Download

The mixed-method study sheds light on the factors influencing 84 non-English major sophomores’ listening anxieties in a public university in Vietnam. The questionnaire adapted from Kim (2000) and semi-structured interviews were employed to discover students’ anxiety levels related to teacher factors, student factors, and materials during their listening process.

8p viharry 15-12-2022 47 5   Download

The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the perceptions of beginners EFL learners on corrective feedback (CF) in speaking classes in relation to their levels of anxiety. Two questionnaires were used to collect data, The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope1986) and Corrective Feedback Beliefs Scale (CFBS) (Fukuda, 2004). The participants were 57 female Saudi students studying English in a privet language center.

11p mudbound 06-12-2021 7 1   Download

This study investigates the foreign language anxiety of EFL students at some upper secondary schools in Thua Thien Hue province. Specifically, it aims to explore students’ attitudes towards foreign language anxiety and teachers’ attitudes toward their students’ foreign language anxiety. The study employed questionnaire, autobiography and interview to collect data. The questionnaire was delivered to 150 students from two upper-secondary schools in Thua Thien Hue province.

11p nguaconbaynhay12 09-06-2021 13 1   Download

The findings identified possible causes of anxiety in preparing for the English test in the national high school graduation exam, among which the students’ fear for the difficult contents of the test and pressure of time to prepare for the test, the students’ difficulties in selecting the right materials and identifying the appropriate methods to study efficiently, and the students’ reliance on only the textbook when preparing for the test were found to be prominent.

12p nguaconbaynhay12 09-06-2021 18 1   Download