SPEAKING ANXIETY

IN THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM IN HIGH
SCHOOLS IN
KOSOVO.

Arta Curri
 SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN KOSOVO.
• Introduction

• What is Speaking Anxiety?

• Factors Contributing to Speaking Anxiety

CONTENTS • Strategies to Reduce Speaking Anxiety

• Case Studies from High Schools in Kosovo

• Conclusion

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 • Investigate speaking anxiety among high school
students in Kosovo

WHAT'S
• Create a better understanding and awareness of
mental health, and figure out the right
approaches to take in order to deal with students

THE feeling anxious.

• Explore the factors contributing to
anxiety, discuss the impact of anxiety on
PRIMARY language learning, and provide strategies to
manage and reduce anxiety.

GOAL? • Examine the teachers and parents’ role in the

students learning, behavior, attitude and feeling
towards foreign language learning.

SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN

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THE
DEFINITION
OF ANXIETY
Anxiety has been defined as ''a subjective
experience of apprehension or tension, imposed
by the expectation of danger or distress or the
need for a special effort''
''Anxiety can be identified by physiological
manifestations such as sweaty palms, nervous
stomachs, increased heartbeats, and hastened
pulse rates.

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 ABOUT ANXIETY

Trauma

Past negative experiences

Gender

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TYPES OF
ANXIETY

Situation-
Trait anxiety State Anxiety Specific
Anxiety

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TYPES OF
ANXIETY

Situation-
Trait anxiety State Anxiety Specific
Anxiety

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Y​
"I just know I have some kind of disability: I can’t learn a
foreign language no matter how hard I try"​

Foreign speaking language anxiety may manifest

itself through psycholinguistic factors such as distortion of
sounds, inability to reproduce the intonation and rhythm of the
language, "freezing up" when called on to perform, forgetting
words or phrases just learned, or simply refusing to speak and
remaining silent" for the rest of the class.​

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 ABOUT SPEAKING ANXIETY

Campbell and Ortiz (1991) found that speaking foreign language anxiety
among students is "concerning" and estimated that up to 50% of all foreign
language students may experience impairing levels of speaking anxiety.
Learning a language itself is "a profoundly unsettling psychological
proposition" for the reason that it directly affects an individual’s self-evaluation
and worldview.
It is mostly argued that speaking is the most "anxiety-provoking aspect in a
foreign language learning situation"

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SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN KOSOVO.
1. Internal factors of speaking anxiety 2. External factors of speaking anxiety

• Negative Thoughts • Family Factor

• Lack of Confidence • Teacher
• Shyness • Media
• Introverted Personality • Social Media

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SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN KOSOVO.
1. Internal factors of speaking anxiety 2. External factors of speaking anxiety

• Negative Thoughts • Family Factor

• Lack of Confidence • Teacher
• Shyness • Media
• Introverted Personality • Social Media

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Location
High school students in two chosen
high schools in Kosovo: "Prishtina
High School" and "Xhevdet Doda."
SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN KOSOVO.
METHODOLOGY
Participants Survey
The participants were 70 students 32-question survey form handed to two
falling into the categories of 15-16- groups of high school students, falling
year-old (1st year of high school into the categories of the first and third
education) and 17-18-year-old (3rd year year of their studies. The method of
of high school education) students, with answering these questions is conducted
no gender specification or educational through a 5-point Likert scale, i.e.,
background "strongly disagree," "disagree,"
"neutral," "agree," and "strongly agree.
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The 32 questions at hand are divided
and fall within 4 separate categories, 8
questions each.

1. Parents, Friends, Peers (8

METHODOLOGY questions)
2. Teachers (8 questions)
3. Media (8 questions)
4. Internal Factors (8
questions)

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The analysis of each individual category contained
in the questionnaire, shows that:

a) Parents, friends and peers are shown to cause

a form of mild anxiety in 18.57% of the
participants (students)

b) Teachers are shown to cause a form of mild

anxiety in 20.18% of the participants (students)

c) Media is shown to cause a form of moderate

anxiety in 36.43% of the participants

d) Internal factors have shown to cause a form of

moderate anxiety in 34.64% of the participants

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ALL- (-1.120) – (-
672)
(-672) – (-224) (-224) –
224
224 – 672 672 –
1.120
INCLUSIVE
QUESTIONNAIR No anxiety Mild Anxiety Moderate
anxiety
Moderately-
severe anxiety
Severe
anxiety
E RESULTS
Family, friends,
peers (-410)

Teachers (-305)

Media (-
122)

Internal
factors (-
24)

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THANK YOU
Mirjam Nilsson

mirjam@contoso.com

www.contoso.com

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