Investigating the Causes and Negative Effects of English Language Speaking Anxiety: A Case Study among EFL Learners at Kandahar University

Ahmad Anwari

doi:10.46545/aijelr.v2i2.77

Abstract

The present study has been conducted to investigate the causes of English language speaking anxiety among EFL learners at Kandahar University. Furthermore, the second goal of the study to investigate the negative effects of speaking anxiety. This study uses a quantitative research approach. Similarly, the questionnaire had two parts the first part had comprised 14 items and the second part 7 items and applied randomly. Besides, the data analyzing was performed in SPSS (version, 24) and bring out the mean and standard division. Finally, the findings revealed those factors which caused EFL learners to feel anxiety during English speaking and numbered as follow: (1) I feel fear of making pronunciation mistakes, (2) I am afraid that my classmates will laugh at me when I speak English. (3) I feel worried during Performing communication orally. In addition, the following factors are the negative effects of anxiety on learners: (1) Anxiety limits my speaking fluency, (2) Anxiety causes me to become under pressure during presentation and (3) Anxiety decreases my oral performance and self-confidence.

Highlights

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in English language, which is the international communication language, language of internet, and the language of science, activities, computer, technology, diplomacy and tourism, so learning English language in every branch of education is important for socialization
The following factors are the negative effects of anxiety on learners: (1) Anxiety limits my speaking fluency, (2) Anxiety causes me to become under pressure during presentation and (3) Anxiety decreases my oral performance and self-confidence
The pronunciation of the English language is a little hard for those who learn English as ESL and EFL; in this research, this is the major cause that students feel anxiety during speaking

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Introduction

There has been an increasing interest in English language, which is the international communication language, language of internet, and the language of science, activities, computer, technology, diplomacy and tourism, so learning English language in every branch of education is important for socialization. That is clear that English is an international language since it has been largely spoken among foreign language speakers. Dewi (2015) asserted that English was used in every corner of the world as a medium to interact among people from different cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds. Farther researches indicate that the English language, at present isn’t being articulated by native speakers, and non-native speakers. Aside from being the world language for international communication, English is used in foreign countries in major places, like the news station, factories and etc... In every language, there are four ways or abilities for learning of the literal of a language, which includes speaking, listening, writing and reading, which all of them are interconnected with each other and speaking play very important rule in learning a language (Ashari, 2015)

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