Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohd Ieruwan and Che Haron, Sueraya
(2019)
Anxiety in Arabic speaking skill among lower secondary students.
In: 3rd International Language and Tourism Conference 2019 (ILTC 2019), 18 -19 Oct 2019, Pagoh, Johor.
Abstract
Students’ academic performance in speaking fluently in a foreign language classroom depends
on their confidence or anxiety levels. The study aims to investigate four (4) factors for anxiety,
which cause speaking anxiety among students in an Arabic Language classroom at secondary schools.
As a preliminary study, total numbers of forty (40) students at the Federal Territory of Kuala
Lumpur were selected based on random stratified sampling, to analyse their anxiety in Arabic as
their foreign language. The four (4) issues that commonly influence students’ achievement are
test anxiety, communication apprehension, anxiety in classroom and fear of negative evaluation
anxiety. Hence, the researcher investigates this area of anxiety using the established
questionnaire of (FLCAS) developed by Horwitz (1986). This study uses SPSS version 22.0 software
application to process and interprete the data for the descriptive statistics. The descriptive
statistics are the means, standard deviation and percentage, which show the significance of this
study. The study will have significant contributions and suggestions for the process of learning of
the Arabic language as a foreign language in daily secondary schools. The findings can help the
teachers to understand students’ anxiety in the process of studying the Arabic Language,
especially in Arabic speaking skill at the daily
secondary schools and another secondary school in general.
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