Global Expert: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023): July

NON-ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS’ FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY: A STUDY CASE

Leni Rohliah (Unknown)
Pratiwi Lestari (Unknown)
Wirda Ningsih (Unknown)
Genta Ulina Hutagalung (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jul 2023

Abstract

In learning English students might face some obstacles that made them reluctant to improve their competence. One of the obstacles was the existence of language anxiety that students could experience in learning English. The objective of this research was to find out the descriptions of non-English major students’ foreign language anxiety which consisted of communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation, test anxiety, and English classroom anxiety. This research used a qualitative research method, in which the writers did a study case at one university in Palembang. The data were analyzed descriptively and presented in tables. In this research, 640 first semester students of Economics and Business Faculty of Muhammadiyah University Palembang in the academic year of 2021/2022 were chosen by using the total population sampling. The data were collected by using Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) questionnaire. Based on the findings of the research, it showed that students experienced foreign language anxiety, such as communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation, test anxiety, and English classroom anxiety.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

GE

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra contains research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year July and December by the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Indo Global Mandiri. It is ...