• Mudassar Nazir

  Author

• Shahid Bashir

  Author

• Zahid Bashir Raja

  Author

The cardinal intention of this research was to study the level of speaking-anxiety in the
ESL classroom among the intermediate students. Anxiety is some sort of troubled state of mind
which hampers the foreign or second language learning process. Those ESL learners who
experience the communicative anxiety, fail to speak effectively.Communication apprehension,
fear of negative evaluation and general feeling of anxiety would be discussed in this research
paper. The tool used for this study was adapted from Horwitz’s (1983) Foreign Language
Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The result showed that the participants experienced a high
level of communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation. The authors have also
given some fruitful suggestions in order to lower the level of anxiety among ESL learners.

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