Author(s)

Bicen Luo ¹, Han Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Languages, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 111 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Corresponding Author

Bicen Luo

ABSTRACT

This study investigated first year university students' willingness and anxiety levels in speaking English in EAP classrooms. UCS and FLCAS were employed to create a questionnaire and collect 31 participants' responses. The major findings are as follows: a) participants demonstrated a higher than average WTC in a broad sense; b) only one third of them reported feeling anxious about speaking English in EAP classes; c) the fear of being negatively commented on, getting involved in communicative scenarios, and making English speeches are the three main anxiety sources that negatively correlate with WTC, with only negative evaluation as the negative predictor.

KEYWORDS

Willingness to Communicate, Foreign Language Anxiety, EAP Classroom

CITE THIS PAPER

Bicen Luo, Han Wang, An Exploration of Chinese Second Language Learners' Willingness to Communicate and Foreign Language Anxiety in EAP Classes. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2023) Vol. 7: 58-63. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2023.070410.

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