The Speaking Anxiety Level of Newbies Debaters in an Online EFL Classroom
Keywords:
Speaking anxiety level, English debate, EFL graduates Horwits’ foreign language classroom anxiety.Abstract
ABSTRACT
The ability to produce a well-organized, logical, and evidential speech is essential in the twenty-first century since convincing other speakers during oral information changes is advancing one's success. An English class debate is a speaking practice that supports mastering these persuasive skills. However, the result of preobservation indicates that EFL graduates show several signs and symptoms of speaking anxiety that influence the effectiveness of their English-speaking performances. Thus, this study investigates the level of speaking anxiety experienced by university students during online EFL debating classes. The research intends to conduct a survey involving 44 third-year university students. An instrument called Horwits' foreign language classroom anxiety questionnaire was distributed to gain data; therefore, the result was statistically analyzed using IBM SPSS. The result shows that more than three-fourths of the sample suffers moderate to high speaking anxiety. It results from fewer practices of building factual and exemplification utterances to persuade other speakers in English besides individual negative perceptions of their debating skills. It recommends studying the causal factors and strategic action to overcome the collegians' speaking anxiety
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