HOW ANXIETY AFFECTS ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS WHEN COMMUNICATING ORALLY

Abstract

This study aims to report three English foreign language (EFL) students’ experiences on how anxiety affected them when communicating orally in their classroom; a review of the literature illustrated the perspectives from which foreign language anxiety research has been conducted. Non participant observations and direct interviews served to explore EFL students’ self-perceptions and level of self-confidence toward anxiety released from activities that involved speaking and the main source of this phenomenon.Key words:  oral communication, affective factors, anxiety, sources of anxiety.