Perceived Foreign Language Anxiety in Online EFL Classes During the Pandemic Era: A Contemporary Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.23918/ijsses.v12i1p176Keywords:
Foreign Language Anxiety , Online Classes, Communication Anxiety, COVID-19Abstract
Online education can be challenging for inexperienced learners. Through the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic, education temporarily shifted from traditional classes to online classes causing numerous challenges encountered by learners. The condition drastically popularized online education which ultimately drew researchers’ attention to study the alternative learning pathway. The research targeted to primarily investigate the prevalence and the underlying reasons of foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of online education. A survey using convenience sampling was conducted to collect data from 233 EFL learners in KRI. The findings highlight that various forms of anxiety are prevalent but the intensity from one aspect to another is different; communication anxiety and fear of evaluation remained critical while test anxiety and general foreign language anxiety were relatively moderate. Educators are recommended to tailor classes to help students mitigate any form of anxiety and ultimately succeed in their language-learning endeavours.
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