Factors Causing Foreign Language Anxiety (Fla) in Speaking

Abstract

This research attempted to find out the factors causing foreign language anxiety in speaking. This research was carried out by employing descriptive quantitative design. The population of this research was the third semester students of English Education Study Program of University of Bengkulu in academic year 2017/2018. The samples of this research were taken by using total sampling tehcnique, i.e 79 students. The data were collected by questionnaire consisted of 29questions related to the anxiety. The results of this study showed that the students mostly had the anxiety. There were three factors that causing the anxiety of the students in speaking; Test Anxiety (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 3.09), Fear of Negative Evaluation (Mildly Affected;Mean Score: 3.00), and Communication Apprehension (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 2.90). In conclusion, there were three factors that causing the student’ anxiety in speaking, and the most dominant factors is the Test Anxiety. In addition, from the test anxiety, it was found that mostly students were afraid of the consequences failing their speaking class

The Interplay Between Emotional Intelligence, Oral Communication Skills and Second Language Speaking Anxiety: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

“…Thus, the second objective of the present study was fully attained at this stage by examining the relationship between oral communication skills and second language speaking anxiety. Numerous studies supported this outcome (Afshar & Rahimi, 2014;Ahmed et al, 2017;Akbar et al, 2018;Alias et al, 2013;Alshahrani & Alandal, 2015;Azarfam & Baki, 2012;Çağatay, 2015;Debreli & Demirkan, 2015;Doğan & Tuncer, 2016;El-Sakka, 2016;Gaibani & Elmenfi, 2016;Khoshsima et al, 2018;Liu & Chen, 2015;Maisarah, 2019;Mukminin et al, 2015;Nijat et al, 2019;Ohata, 2005;Pappamihiel, 2002;Razak et al, 2017;Santos et al, 2017;Tercan & Dikilitaş, 2015;Zhiping & Paramasivam, 2013). In accordance with the present study's findings, Soomro et al (2019) conducted a qualitative study on oral communication and second language anxiety among eight participants in Pakistan.…”

“…As already explained in the previous section, there is no direct association between EI and second language speaking anxiety in the past literature. However, after reviewing the literature, it was established that there was a substantial association between EI and oral communication skills (Engelberg & Sjöberg, 2005;Chang & Hu, 2017;Marzuki, Mustaffa, & Saad, 2015;Schutte, Malouff, Simunek, McKenley, & Hollander, 2002;Suhaimi, Marzuki & Mustaffa, 2014) and also between oral communication skills and second language speaking anxiety (Ahmed, Pathan, & Khan, 2017;Akbar, Sofyan, & Damayanti, 2018;Alias, Sidhu & Fook, 2013;AY, 2010;Çağatay, 2015;Debreli & Demirkan, 2015;Doğan & Tuncer, 2016;El-Sakka, 2016;Gaibani & Elmenfi, 2016;Haskin, Smith & Racine, 2003;Lee, 2016;MacIntyre & Gardner, 1991;Price, 1991;Razak, Yassin, & Maasum, 2017;Soomro et al, 2019;Young, 1991Young, , 1992. According to Preacher, Rucker and Hayes (2007), mediation (M) takes place when the causal effect of an independent variable (X) on a dependent variable (Y) is transferred by a mediating variable (M).…”

“…Moreover, several studies were conducted on high-school students (Khoshsima, Sarani, & Ganji, 2018;Liu & Chen, 2015;Maisarah, 2019;Mukminin, Masbirorotni, Noprival, Sutarno, Arif, & Maimunah, 2015;Tercan & Dikilitaş, 2015;Santos, Gorter, & Cenoz, 2017). Lastly, various studies were conducted in university settings (Ahmed, Pathan, & Khan, 2017;Akbar, Sofyan, & Damayanti, 2018;Çağatay, 2015;Debreli & Demirkan, 2015;Doğan & Tuncer, 2016;El-Sakka, 2016;Gaibani & Elmenfi, 2016;Razak, Yassin, & Maasum, 2017). All of the previous studies found a significant association between oral communication skills and second language speaking anxiety.…”

“…The results of their study showed that the students feel anxious to speak to others in a classroom due to the lack of communication skills. Similarly, a study was conducted by Akbar et al (2018) on the causes of foreign language speaking anxiety among 79 third-semester students in Indonesia; they reported that the students were mildly anxious to talk to each other in English due to a lack of communication skills. Another study by Çağatay (2015) examined EFL university students' foreign language speaking anxiety in Turkey.…”

Correlation of Learning Difficulties with Anxiety: A Concurrent Embedded Mixed Methods Study

“…A study related to student anxiety is mostly carried out in study programs or courses that contain practicum, practice, presentation, and or complex calculations, such as in the field of medicine, nursing, language, statistics, mathematics, microteaching, and pre-service teachers [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. However, there is a limited study examining the anxiety of students attending distance learning who also have a job.…”