Speaking anxiety and its effects on students’ in-class speaking performance: Brief literature review and implications

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Anxiety and nervousness are commonly seen when language learners learn to speak a foreign language. These feelings are considered to have a potentially negative effect on communication in the target language. The use of modern communicative language teaching approaches in the language classrooms and the wide-spread use of English language have increased the demand to learn good communication skills but existence of such feelings in the learners may prevent them from achieving the desired goal. It is highly important for a language teacher to take learners’ anxiety in learning to speak foreign language into consideration in order to support them timely in performing in the target language. This paper provides literature review of speaking anxiety, including definitions of anxiety and speaking anxiety, factors causing speaking anxiety for EFL learners in learning speaking skill in their classrooms. Pedagogical implications for both teachers and learners are also discussed thanks to the findings of some research carried out in the same field.