Two Major Factors that Lead to English Speaking Anxiety

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.584How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English Speaking Anxiety, English Proficiency, Learning Style, Types of Classroom Activities

Abstract

Teachers around China have reported students’ reticence or stuttering in speaking English, which could partly be ascribed to students’ English-speaking anxiety. This paper sought to identify the two major factors that lead to students’ speaking anxiety, and the factors studied in this study include 1) Gender; 2) English Proficiency; 3) Parents’ Education; 4) Learning Style; 5) Types of Classroom Activities. Quantitative data was collected from a total of 76 non-English major undergraduates in Yanshan University, using questionnaires. T-test, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis are used to analyze the statistics. English proficiency and types of classroom activities are found to be the two major factors that lead to English-speaking anxiety. Accordingly, the result suggests that more group work and pair work should be introduced in English class to ease students’ English-speaking anxiety.

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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  - Huan Wan
AU  - Li Yan
AU  - Yan Gong
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Two Major Factors that Lead to English Speaking Anxiety
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 661
EP  - 665
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.584
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.584
ID  - Wan2020
ER  -