PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY WITH RELATION TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY AMONG THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

Students, all around the world suffer from public speaking anxiety in class while learning foreign languages. This research is conducted to determine the relation of anxiety and speech proficiency of several undergraduates during in-class activities. All the students whom participated in the research study English as a second language, and were evaluated on the basis of their willingness to engage in interactive social environment in the class, and the effect their anxiety had on the fluency of publically speaking a non-native language like English. The tool adopted in the research is developed by Dolly Jesusita Young (1990), and consists of 24 Likert-scale questions. The questionnaire was consensually conducted by 53 students of the university in Karachi. The data of the findings were analyzed in the quantitative method of descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages.