Speaking Anxiety of EFL High School Students: Indonesian and Moroccan Cases

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10.2991/assehr.k.200513.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

foreign language anxiety, speaking anxiety, Indonesian students, Moroccan students

Abstract

This study aims to explore the speaking difficulties encountered by Moroccan and Indonesian high school students, as well as shed light on the level of anxiety they are experiencing and its causes. The study employs a quantitative approach. A Likert scale-based questionnaire was administered to 30 Moroccan high school students, and 30 others to their fellow Indonesian students. The results of the study showed that Indonesian students experiences high level of English speaking anxiety compared to their fellow Moroccan students. Pronunciation, fear of making mistakes and fear of negative evaluation are the major causes of EFL speaking anxiety of these groups.

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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  - Bouchra Eddraoui
AU  - Yanty Wirza
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/15
TI  - Speaking Anxiety of EFL High School Students: Indonesian and Moroccan Cases
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 349
EP  - 356
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200513.079
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.079
ID  - Eddraoui2020
ER  -