Investigating the construct of anxiety in relation to speaking skills among ESL tertiary learners

• Main Authors: Chan, Swee Heng, Ain Nadzimah Abdullah,, Nurkarimah Binti Yusof,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/1/18_3_13_ChanSweeHeng.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5567/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

Oral communication skills are a highly valued commodity. Part of the packaging is the exuding of confidence, which can be modulated by other mental states such as that of anxiety. Anxiety can be both good and bad and thus facilitating or debilitating, as a confidence booster or demotivator. Anxiety...