This study examined the relationships between L2 learners' anxiety, self-confidence and oral performance. The participants were 132 Korean college students who enrolled the English conversation classes in 2004. Questionnaires related to anxiety and self-confidence were given to the students and their oral performances were assessed in terms of IATEFL's criteria. Factor analysis indicated that c...

AIM To describe a less invasive method of providing anesthesia in non-English speaking patients undergoing glaucoma surgery. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Prospective observational study conducted in a tertiary Care Eye Institute, Wills Eye Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA. MATERIALS AND METHODS The blitz anesthesia technique was applied to 15 non-English speaking patients (Vietnamese, Mandarin, Russ...

PURPOSE (1) To explore the experience of non-English-speaking mothers with preterm, very low birth weight (VLBW) infants (,1,500 g); and (2) to examine mothers' assessment of a peer support program matching them with linguistically and culturally similar parent-buddies. DESIGN An exploratory, qualitative analysis based on grounded theory. SAMPLE A convenience sample of eight mothers from fo...

Speaking is one of four skills that are deemed to be important. In EFL Classroom, the students often suffer from English speaking anxiety. The purpose this research was discover level students’ anxiety and causes behind it. Descriptive qualitative used investigate research. This conducted on twelfth-grade XII-IIS 2 MAS Ushuluddin Singkawang. To obtain data, observation two questionnaires were a...

Students’ anxiety, speaking performance and their relation to genders have been investigated extensively in the EFL context most participants are English students, but of studies with same variables were conducted an offline setting. Thus, purpose this research is describe anxiety levels students who studied another language than learning investigate relationship between English-speaking classe...

Anxiety about speaking English has received a lot of attention in recent years. Therefore, the purpose this study was to describe factors that caused students' language anxiety and their strategies for reducing at class. Participants were 5 students’ department second semester. The methods used descriptive qualitative. Data obtained from interviews observations. As result, it shows EFL students...

The assessment of second language (L2) speaking has long been an important yet challenging area of research in language testing. L2 testers are often concerned with designing authentic speaking tasks that resemble real-life speaking activities so that score interpretations are generalizable to non-test contexts. The conversational nature of speaking skills has promoted the widespread integratio...

INTRODUCTION To assess anxiety levels in mothers before and after undergoing amniocentesis. The secondary aim was to see how counselling by nurse-counsellors affected maternal anxiety levels. METHODS A prospective study was carried out from February 2000 to August 2000 at the Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore. We used standard statistical analysis and Spielberger's s...

This study focused on Yemeni EFL learners of second-year level, Department English, College Education/Saber, Aden University. started to English in class seven at the age about 14, and this is a problem for learners. Besides, learners’ problems were inadequate syllabus inappropriate teaching materials English-speaking skills course. The researchers identified existing classroom. college faced d...

speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. speaking skill is regarded one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. they are generally facing problems to use the foreign language to express their thoughts effectively. they stop talking ...