Students’ Speaking Anxiety on their Speaking Performance: A Study of EFL Learners

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10.2991/assehr.k.200115.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

freshmen, speaking anxiety, speaking performance

Abstract

In the new era of industrial revolution 4.0, it demands that people should enhance their communication competence to interact globally. The ability to speak a foreign language is prominently influenced by one of the problems, namely speaking anxiety. This language production barrier affects various aspects of oral communication. This study aimed at finding out the impact of speaking anxiety on freshmen’s speaking performance. There were seventy eight freshmen of the 2018/2019 batch involved as the participants of this study. The data were collected by using a Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) questionnaire as well as students’ speaking performance, which was evaluated by using a speaking rubric. Pearson Product Moment formula was used to analyze the correlation between the two variables. It was found out that speaking anxiety was correlated to the speaking performance. Fear and nervousness produced by speaking anxiety would affect oral language performance.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anastasia Ronauli Hasibuan
AU  - Ira Irzawati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/20
TI  - Students’ Speaking Anxiety on their Speaking Performance: A Study of EFL Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Research Across Disciplines (ICIRAD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 101
EP  - 106
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200115.017
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200115.017
ID  - Hasibuan2020
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