期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：3
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The cardinal intention of this research was to study the level of speaking-anxiety in theESL classroom among the intermediate students. Anxiety is some sort of troubled state of mindwhich hampers the foreign or second language learning process. Those ESL learners whoexperience the communicative anxiety, fail to speak effectively.Communication apprehension,fear of negative evaluation and general feeling of anxiety would be discussed in this researchpaper. The tool used for this study was adapted from Horwitz’s (1983) Foreign LanguageClassroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The result showed that the participants experienced a highlevel of communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation. The authors have alsogiven some fruitful suggestions in order to lower the level of anxiety among ESL learners.
关键词：FLCAS (Foreign language classroom anxiety); Pakistani ESL learners;Communication apprehension; Fear of negative evaluation
