Holistics Journal
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): HOLISTICS JOURNAL: HOSPITALITY AND LINGUISTICS

Anxiety and Its Effects on Listening and Speaking Achievements of Engineering Students

Sri Endah Kusmartini (English Department, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Feb 2022

Abstract

The study investigated the anxiety and its effects on listening and speaking achievement of engineering students, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic. It was quantitative research. The samples were 109 students of the electrical engineering study program. The researcher used Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale with some adaptation to collect the data about anxiety and took the data about the listening and speaking achievements of the students from listening and speaking tests. The researcher used descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Coefficient Correlation, and linear regression to analyze the data. The negative correlation between student foreign language classroom anxiety and the listening achievement of the students was significant. Next, student foreign language classroom anxiety also correlated negatively towards student speaking achievement. Finally, there were some contributions of foreign language classroom anxiety towards student listening and speaking achievements. Keywords: Foreign language classroom anxiety, listening, speaking

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holistic

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Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

The aim of this journal is to disseminate the conceptual thoughts or ideas and research results that have been achieved in the area of hospitality and linguistics. Holistics, particularly focuses on the main problems in the development of the sciences of hospitality and linguistics areas as follows: ...