Learners’ speaking anxiety

There were several factors that affected student anxiety, namely internal factors which covered fear of failure, fear of criticism, conflicting emotion, speech anxiety, negative experience, fear of losing the thread of material, fear of being stopped, and negative thinking; and external factors which covered condition of presentation room, failing to practice, gender, and physical factor.

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To achieve this aim, two research questions were formulated as follows: 1. What are the effects of foreign language speaking anxiety (FLSA) on English language learning? 2. What factors contribute to learners’ speaking anxiety? The findings of this paper would be helpful for language teachers to adjust and adapt their teaching methodology to deal with learners’ speaking anxiety and improve their learners’ performance and achievement accordingly.

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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.

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This paper aims to analyse the major sources of this counterproductive phenomenon as well as act as a reference for students, teachers to gain comprehensive understanding of speaking anxiety for further interventions.

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