Foreign language enjoyment and speaking anxiety in the classroom are two potential emotion-inducing factors for foreign language learning. This sequential mixed methods study investigated whether and to what extent Iranian EFL students experienced foreign language enjoyment and public speaking anxiety in their English classrooms, and how they characterize the sources of the enjoyment and speaki...

Test anxiety was a commonly known or assumed factor that could greatly influence performance of test takers. With the employment of designed questionnaires and computer-based spoken English test, this paper explored test anxiety manifestation of Chinese college students from both macro and micro aspects, and found out that the major anxiety in computer-based spoken English test was spoken Engli...

Despite the fact that second/foreign language speaking anxiety is a counterproductive phenomenon in the teaching and learning of English and language anxiety has a debilitating effect on the oral performance of speakers of English, teachers do not always identify anxious students, and often attribute their unwillingness to participate in speaking tasks to factors such as lack of motivation, or ...

Yusuke Kondo Waseda University Abstract Language anxiety is one of the negative factors in second language acquisition. However, several studies produced inconsistent results and have not concurred in the subcategorization of language anxiety. These inconsistent results seem likely to be caused by socio-cultural differences. This present study investigated the applicability of language anxiety ...

Speaking anxiety appears detrimental to English learners since it can lead negative self-perceptions, mental slowness, and poor performance. As a result, students cannot achieve high degree of competence, particularly fluency. Education at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta experienced fear speaking because they find challenging communicate with lecturers peers in English. This study investiga...

This study aimed to describe about the factors that caused students’ speaking anxiety and strategies reduce in basic spoken English class. The participants of were 18 students who took class first semester. method used this was descriptive qualitative. data obtained from interviews observation. findings revealed derived some provoked by both internal external matters. factor type task. task bec...

The study investigates Vietnamese non-English-majored freshmen's speaking anxiety. 297 freshmen enrolled at a public university in Vietnam answered the Questionnaire of Speaking Anxiety. results show that participants had moderate level English-speaking anxiety, with female students having higher anxiety than male students. To provide insights into sources anxiety-provoking situations and strat...