How Does Motivation Affect Communication Apprehension, Fear of Negative Evaluation and Test Anxiety among ESL Learners

Motivation has been recognized as instrumental in the foreign language learning it influences actions, responses or attitudes taken by learners and affects learner’s attainment of language. In Malaysia, students are required to learn English formally classroom for a significant number years. However, current trends research findings reveal that uncomfortable which is perceived daunting distressing. This study explores perception on their motivation its influence fear quantitative collected from 131 diploma one public university Malaysia. A 5-point Likert-scale survey instrument was utilised comprised three sections: Section demographic profile; B learn; section C The showed while prevalent among ESL students, not directly affected.