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Students' Anxiety in Indonesian EFL Public Speaking Class: A Quantitative Research

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Language anxiety in English Foreign Language (EFL) classroom may appear in students' speaking performance. It influences their achievements due to their lack preparation or minimum language competence. This study investigates the correlation of the students' anxiety and students speaking performance. There were 51 participants of the research from Public Speaking Class, Department of English Education, Universitas Islam Indonesia. The data were taken from the result of questionnaire Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and the public speaking score. They were analyzed using SPSS to investigate the correlation. The statistical data of Pearson shows a correlation which is r = 0.363 with significance 0.09 (p <0.05).

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      ICETT '19: Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies
      May 2019
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      ISBN:9781450372008
      DOI:10.1145/3337682

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