Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future

Luo, Han

doi:10.1515/cjal-2013-0030

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“…This, accordingly, would be an obstruction to the student to achieve a high level of speaking English more confidently and the expected learning outcomes. (Worde, 2003& Luo, 2013 consider speaking anxiety as a potential problem that can affect the production and retention of learner"s new language.…”

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Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among the Kurdish EFL Students: A Case Study at a Public University

Ibrahim

Hamad

2021

ALUSTATH J.

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In the English as a Foreign Language EFL contexts from different settings, the issue of language learning anxiety has been extensively studies and investigated. However, in the Kurdish settings a few studies carried out about this issue, specially about speaking anxiety in English classes. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the level, major factor of foreign language speaking anxiety among the Kurdish EFL students and the students’ perspectives about foreign language speaking anxiety in the context of a university in Kurdistan. For achieving the study purpose, first year students (N=91) from English Department at a state university participated. The data regarding the level of EFL speaking anxiety gathered through administering a questionnaire (Foreign Language Anxiety Classroom Scale FLCAS) by (Horwitz et al. 1986), as well as through a semi-structured interview with the participants (N=18). The quantitative data were analyzed through descriptive statistics by using the SPSS software program (version 25), and the qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. The results of the quantitative data illustrated that the students experienced a moderate level of EFL speaking anxiety, and the qualitative data confirmed the results whilst the participants perceived speaking as the most anxiety provoking factor. It was also found that fear of making mistakes, fear of negative evaluation, fear of speaking in front of others and immediate questions were as the major causes of the students’ speaking anxiety. This research contributes to the literature as it is the first to target FL speaking anxiety among Kurdish freshmen EFL learners.

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Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among the Kurdish EFL Students: A Case Study at a Public University

Ibrahim

Hamad

2021

ALUSTATH J.

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“…Researchers have found that one-third of the foreign language learners experience at least a moderate level of foreign language anxiety [2]. Researchers have also documented the wide range of potential negative effects that foreign language anxiety has on foreign language learning [3]. Among the four skills of acquiring a language (reading, listening, speaking and writing), speaking has been identified as a high-anxiety proficiency [1], [4], [5], and the anxiety debilitates the oral performance of second language learners [6].…”

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Panel—Improve Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in Immersive Environment

Meng

Knight

et al. 2020

2020 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)

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Foreign language learners, especially adult beginning learners, often experience anxiety when acquire speaking proficiency. This negative emotional state hurdles the learners from starting to practice the target language with native speakers, their instructors, and their peer learners. The immersive learning environment provided through Virtual Reality (VR) technology enables students to start orally practicing the target language without directly facing the real audience at the beginning of their learning journey. In this panel, it is projected to present the possibility of applying VR language learning tools for students to practice speaking in a low-anxiety immersive environment for multiple languages: English, French, and Chinese. With four panelists, the possible tools, their affordance, appropriate instructional design, and activities suitable for VR delivery in the foreign language classroom will be discussed.

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“…The students can not speak well because the student feel confuse and sometime because of English is not their mother language for them.They feel anxiety, it is called language anxiety. Luo (2013) stated Language anxiety is the problem when the students feel fear they going to practice their English. Ansari (2015) said that foreign language anxiety are psychological, behaviorial, and knowledge related responses that accompany an individuals feelings as result of his or her own negative expectation and failure in term of negative performance related to foreign language learning.…”

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Speaking Anxiety Level of Efl Students at Tenth Grade of Senior High School 2 Lubuk Sikaping

Ariani

Eliza

Dewi

2020

ELP

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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.

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Foreign Language Anxiety: Past and Future

Cited by 30 publications

References 49 publications

Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among the Kurdish EFL Students: A Case Study at a Public University

Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among the Kurdish EFL Students: A Case Study at a Public University

Panel—Improve Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in Immersive Environment

Speaking Anxiety Level of Efl Students at Tenth Grade of Senior High School 2 Lubuk Sikaping

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