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Abstract:One common reason to students' reluctance to participate in classroom activities has been identified as language anxiety. It is the feeling students get when having to communicate using foreign language, which is neither their mother tongue nor national language. Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) on the other hand is the internal factor to promote everyday problem solving and goal achievement. Several researches have shown that SQ is influential in controlling one's level of stress hence improving their performance. This paper therefore investigates the relationship between students' SQ and their language anxiety when communicating in a classroom and the findings of this study shall help educators to understand if SQ have any influence on students' language anxiety and use the information to enhance students' communication. This study is a quantitative study employing Spiritual Intelligence Self Report Inventory (SISRI-24) developed [1] and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) developed [2] to collect data for both SQ and language anxiety respectively. The instruments were administered to 104, semester one students of Politeknik Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah. The aim of the study was to determine how these two constructs correlate with each other, and helps English Language lecturers to cope with their students' anxiety level in learning English by understanding the correlations.