The Use of Pair Work to Reduce Speaking Anxiety in an EFL Classroom

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200406.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EFL students, foreign language speaking anxiety, pair work activity

Abstract

Anxiety in speaking is one of the common obstacles in learning English as a foreign language which leads students to neglect the opportunity to speak English in the classroom. To help students in reducing speaking anxiety, teachers need to find a suitable teaching strategy. Based on the issue, this study reports how to pair work activity implemented in an EFL classroom helps teachers in reducing speaking anxiety and the role of pair-working activity in reducing speaking anxiety among EFL students. This study employs three instruments which are questionnaires, interviews, and observation. As a result, pair work successfully lessened students’ speaking anxiety by promoting interaction between students and the opportunity to speak where the less anxious students help the anxious ones in pronouncing certain words and inform the suitable vocabularies.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Mutiara Putri Aulia
AU  - Nenden Sri Lengkanawati
AU  - Rojab Siti Rodliyah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/09
TI  - The Use of Pair Work to Reduce Speaking Anxiety in an EFL Classroom
BT  - Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 134
EP  - 137
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200406.027
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200406.027
ID  - Aulia2020
ER  -