Students’ Perspectives on Speaking Anxiety in the English Foreign Language Classroom

Khusnia, Aulia Nisa

doi:10.26555/adjes.v3i2.4988

Cited by 8 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Learning from Home is essential to be hold since students are still expected to be able to read in English since English is an international language regardless the situation they are now facing. If the students do not want to lose the chance to gain much knowledge, it is essential for both EFL (English as Foreign Language) and ESL (English as Second Language) students to take reading English into account (Pustika, 2018). English serves as one of important subjects in our education system.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Students’ Attitude Towards English Online Learning Using Moodle During Covid-19 Pandemic at SMK Yadika Bandarlampung

Sinaga

Pustika

2021

JELTL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The ministry of education in Indonesia had declared the spread out of Covid-19 pandemic. To overcome this current situation, Learning from Home (LFH) is implemented for all subjects in the educational institution. LFH is conducted to all courses, including English class, through an online learning platform, one of which is Moodle. Moodle can cover up teaching and learning English courses during the spread out of Covid-19. Theoretically, the researcher organized the framework by examining students’ attitudes and analyzing how students overcome difficulties in learning English during online learning through Moodle. The researcher used self-analysis and student opinions to determine the degree of consensus based on how students felt or acted in response to the current situation. While, the favorable or unfavorable (positive or negative) of students’ attitude can be changed due to the characteristics of students’ thoughts (cognitive), feeling (affective), and behavioral (conative). However, to reduce the students’ negative attitude is to change the focus of students and the students’ acceptance. In this research, the researcher used qualitative research that focused on word descriptively. The questionnaire was given to 30 students and 6 students participated in an interview session. The questionnaire statements and questions of interview were adapted from the research of Brown (1994) about components of students’ attitude. The result of this research shows a positive attitude to implement Moodle as a learning platform. They have also demonstrated a positive attitude toward the importance of learning English in vocational high school. However, the students also find some self-problem in learning English during the implementation of Learning from Home (LFH), where students sometimes lack self-management to follow the learning activities.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Students’ Attitude Towards English Online Learning Using Moodle During Covid-19 Pandemic at SMK Yadika Bandarlampung

Sinaga

Pustika

2021

JELTL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This is in reference to our second research question, which asked whether students perceive to have improved their L2 speaking confidence after receiving consistent opportunities for unguided conversational practice. Low language confidence and speaking anxiety have been shown to negatively affect language learners' overall performance (Brown, 2008;Liu & Jackson, 2008), as well as hinder learners from fully participating in activities that could further improve their language abilities (Khusnia, 2016). Therefore, measuring participants' perceived speaking confidence before and after weekly interaction with native English instructors was an important goal of this project.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been estimated that up to a third of language learners suffer from some degree of language anxiety (Worde, 1998;Zhang, 2011) and that students feel considerable more anxiety in language courses (Cutrone, 2009). Language learner confidence could be one factor that prevents higher levels of English proficiency (Aida, 1994), and it has been seen where a lack of confidence can cause students to fear communication, resulting in students refusing to participate in situations where they could potentially improve their language abilities (Daly, 1991;Khusnia, 2016).…”

Section: Speaking Confidence and Language Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficacy of Unguided Conversation on Fluency and Speaking Confidence: A Case Study in South Korea

Baldwin

Manning²,

Powell

et al. 2022

MJSELT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To date, there is limited research into the measurable benefits of unguided and unstructured conversation practice (typically a popular, in-demand service) for adult English language learners. This project looks to determine the differences in measured oral fluency as well as self-reported speaking confidence of South Korean university students before and after several months of conversational English practice with native English instructors. Participants were given weekly one-on-one “free talk” sessions with no grammatical instruction and very limited corrective feedback for a total of one hour. Sessions were recorded at early and late program intervals in order to calculate the average length of runs and speech rate. Moreover, students completed pre- and post-program surveys to estimate their overall confidence levels in L2 speaking. This project found limited change in fluency without direct corrective feedback. Furthermore, our measurements of students’ self-reported speaking confidence revealed inconsistent trends from the first to last sessions. This research seems to indicate that loosely structured, “coffee shop” style lessons should adopt a more structured curriculum in order to see more pronounced and measurable growth over time.

show abstract

“…It is used to get a comprehensive understanding and idea from the text. A reading activity can shape the students to become long life learners since they keep refresh and add knowledge every time they do reading (Pustika, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Students’ Perception Towards the Use of Webtoon to Improve Reading Comprehension Skill

Erya

Pustika

2021

JELTL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This research discussed about student’s perception on the use of Webtoon to improve reading comprehension skill. Webtoon is a new platform that can be used to improve reading skill by its words used and interesting pictures. The purpose of this study is to explain whether or not Webtoon can increase students’ interest in reading comprehension skill. The respondents of the study are the students of English Education students at Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia.The result of the study indicates that the students are more interested and get the motivation to improve their reading comprehension skill by using Webtoon.

show abstract

Students’ Perspectives on Speaking Anxiety in the English Foreign Language Classroom

Cited by 8 publications

References 1 publication

Exploring Students’ Attitude Towards English Online Learning Using Moodle During Covid-19 Pandemic at SMK Yadika Bandarlampung

Exploring Students’ Attitude Towards English Online Learning Using Moodle During Covid-19 Pandemic at SMK Yadika Bandarlampung

Efficacy of Unguided Conversation on Fluency and Speaking Confidence: A Case Study in South Korea

Students’ Perception Towards the Use of Webtoon to Improve Reading Comprehension Skill

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About