Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate in Indonesian EFL Context - How Do They Correlate?

Yana Shanti Manipuspika

2017

Abstract

This paper discussed how EFL students’ language anxiety correlates with their willingness to communicate. It also identified the types of students’ anxiety as well as their anxiety level. Quantitative descriptive approach was employed in the study and the freshmen of English Study Program Universitas Brawijaya were taken as participants. The results indicated a strong positive correlation between learners’ foreign language classroom anxiety and their willingness to communicate. The students’ types of anxiety were fear of negative evaluation, test anxiety, and communication apprehension. In addition, students had high level of anxiety, which makes them find difficulties in language learning process and tend to have low desire to speak.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Manipuspika Y. (2017). Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate in Indonesian EFL Context - How Do They Correlate?.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 406-409. DOI: 10.5220/0007168104060409

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Yana Shanti Manipuspika},
title={Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate in Indonesian EFL Context - How Do They Correlate?},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={406-409},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007168104060409},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate in Indonesian EFL Context - How Do They Correlate?
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Manipuspika Y.
PY - 2017
SP - 406
EP - 409
DO - 10.5220/0007168104060409