Foreign language anxiety (FLA) plays an indispensable role in students’ second (L2) learning. This paper briefly reviewed the relevant research based on foreign classroom scale (FLCAS) terms of effects FLA L2 skill performance and debate The indicated that served as a confounding affective variable influencing achievement differently among individuals. Furthermore, from perspectives cognitive p...

This study investigated first year university students' willingness and anxiety levels in speaking English EAP classrooms. UCS FLCAS were employed to create a questionnaire collect 31 participants' responses. The major findings are as follows: a) participants demonstrated higher than average WTC broad sense; b) only one third of them reported feeling anxious about classes; c) the fear being neg...

Abstract This study aims to investigate the level of students' anxiety and determine teacher's strategies for reducing levels. Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) semi-structured interviews were used levels teachers' anxiety. The result showed that students’ was at middle level, with a mean score 108.61. Therefore, teachers should employ various strategies, namely establishing secu...

As arecognized psychological construct, anxietyplays aninfluential role in the invaluable experience of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This affective factor has appealed lots of researchersinto examination of anxiety levels and severityin a wide variety of academic and nonacademic contexts since the last three decades; however there are several unexplored EFL settings overlooked ...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and demotivational factors (DF) at a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey. 148 B1 (intermediate level) students enrolled English preparatory school participated this study. Data were collected from Turkish-adapted version of Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), ...

This study aims to investigate the anxiety of preservice English EFL teachers in a normal Chinese university. article identifies and analyzes various types students experience their typical classroom experiences. We used survey research design with FLCAS questionnaire this study, along questionnaire, conduct research. 74 participated. The results showed that communication apprehension represent...

Abstract Learners’ personality traits and self-assessment have an essential role in their academic achievement the well-being of society. Although L2 grit core (CSA) attracted considerable attention educational research, few studies focused on impact boosting CSA managing foreign language anxiety (FLA). Drawing upon this existing research gap, present study set forth to test a structural model ...

The aimed of this research was to find out the effect Round Robin Brainstorming in solving students’ speaking anxiety. writer compared level anxiety and ability before after being taught by Brainstorming. researcher took one class as sample that consist 30 students from X Multimedia 2 SMK Muhammadiyah Pagaralam. data collected using two instruments. first is a test measure students' ability, ...

The aim of this study was to examine Iranian EFL university students’ level of anxiety and their perceptions towards in-class activities during speaking courses and possible causes of apprehension. Moreover, this study investigated whether or not EFL university students’ gender differences affect their perceptions of foreign language speaking anxiety. To this end, data were collecte...