Students’ Anxieties Toward Their Negative Evaluation and Mistakes in Task Completion

Misdi Misdi (Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia)
Diana Rahmawati Rozak (Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia)
Qori Safira (Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia)

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022)

This paper reports anxieties experiences in tasks completion in speaking activities. Following exploratory case study, the study took place at a private university in Indonesia. Three female EFL university students were recruited and participated in the research project based on the voluntarily basis principle. In garnering the data, journal reflection and interview were employed to evaluate participants’ sense of anxieties toward the speaking project. The findings reveal the students’ anxieties occurred during the English speaking because lack of preparation. At the end, research implication and recommendation are presented and discussed