Saudi EFL Students’ Speaking Anxiety from the Perspective of their College Instructors

Speaking is considered an essential literacy skill and enjoys a superior status among other language skills. Thus, this current study aims at scrutinizing Saudi EFL trainees’ speaking anxiety from their college instructors’ perspectives. It adheres to qualitative approach utilizes face-to-face interviews with four instructors. Thematic analysis was used analyze the data. The results showed that instructors colleges of technology are aware students’ anxiety. they reported several causes lead foreign (FLSA, hereafter) such as fear making mistakes, limited exposure language, low proficiency, receiving negative evaluation both peers. In addition, revealed use different strategies help alleviating FLSA building good relationships students, creating positive friendly atmosphere in classroom, increasing engagement class correcting erroneous beliefs about learning. Encouraging motivating students participate oral tasks significant strategy stated by instructors, which reduce classroom. concludes type curriculum overcrowding classes factors significantly affect awareness FLSA.