Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language which may reduce students’ willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one the most salient aspects speech, there has been little research date on relationship between non-native and speaking anxiety. The purpose this study therefore examine English learners’ perceptions beliefs about accent, also explore concept anxiety, that is, arisi...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

Limited research on the relationship between pre-service English language teachers' foreign speaking anxiety and their willingness to communicate, particularly in Turkish context, paved way for present inquiry. Considering utmost importance of two interrelated concepts, this quantitative study investigates communicate within a correlational design. Eighty-four first-year ELT students from unive...

The newly enforced MUET-CEFR aligned format is one of the government’s efforts to upscale Malaysian learners’ English proficiency level be at par with international standards. However, learners are reported have high anxiety levels resulting in poor performance, especially speaking component. Hence, this study conducted investigate learner’s levels, factors causing anxiety, and strategies overc...