Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners

Oral communication skills are a highly valued commodity. Part of the packaging is the exuding of confidence, which can be modulated by other mental states such as that of anxiety. Anxiety can be both good and bad and thus facilitating or debilitating, as a confidence booster or demotivator. Anxiety...

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Main Authors:	Chan, Swee Heng, Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/1/18_3_13_ChanSweeHeng.pdf

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spelling	ukm-55672016-12-14T06:38:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/ Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners Chan, Swee Heng Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof, Oral communication skills are a highly valued commodity. Part of the packaging is the exuding of confidence, which can be modulated by other mental states such as that of anxiety. Anxiety can be both good and bad and thus facilitating or debilitating, as a confidence booster or demotivator. Anxiety is worthy of investigation because it is a factor that influences communicative competence. Language anxiety can be defined along communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. Specifically, the study examines dimensions of language anxiety aligned to the major sub-constructs mentioned earlier. Data for this study is obtained through a survey questionnaire administered to 700 UPM students prior to an oral communication test. Findings suggest that most of the students experienced a medium level of oral communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. In the learning process, anxiety forms an important element that could determine language learning success. Thus, teachers must learn to identify anxiety and be able to enhance facilitating anxiety while reducing the negative. In this way, the teacher will have the awareness about the learning process of the oral skills defined along the construct of anxiety. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/1/18_3_13_ChanSweeHeng.pdf Chan, Swee Heng and Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, and Nurkarimah Binti Yusof, (2012) Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 18 (3). pp. 155-166. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	Oral communication skills are a highly valued commodity. Part of the packaging is the exuding of confidence, which can be modulated by other mental states such as that of anxiety. Anxiety can be both good and bad and thus facilitating or debilitating, as a confidence booster or demotivator. Anxiety is worthy of investigation because it is a factor that influences communicative competence. Language anxiety can be defined along communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. Specifically, the study examines dimensions of language anxiety aligned to the major sub-constructs mentioned earlier. Data for this study is obtained through a survey questionnaire administered to 700 UPM students prior to an oral communication test. Findings suggest that most of the students experienced a medium level of oral communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. In the learning process, anxiety forms an important element that could determine language learning success. Thus, teachers must learn to identify anxiety and be able to enhance facilitating anxiety while reducing the negative. In this way, the teacher will have the awareness about the learning process of the oral skills defined along the construct of anxiety.
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author	Chan, Swee Heng Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof,
spellingShingle	Chan, Swee Heng Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof, Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
author_facet	Chan, Swee Heng Ain Nadzimah Abdullah, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof,
author_sort	Chan, Swee Heng
title	Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
title_short	Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
title_full	Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
title_fullStr	Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
title_full_unstemmed	Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners
title_sort	investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among esl tertiary learners
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/1/18_3_13_ChanSweeHeng.pdf
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Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners

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