Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to understand the reasons of students’ foreign language speaking anxiety in classroom and also reveal the reasons of problems students experience when they speak foreign language by considering the opinions and experiences of students. The study was conducted by using phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs. The participants of the study consisted of 13 3rd grade students who were taking the Professional English course and studying in the Tourism Faculty of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. Besides, in order to collect data, qualitative interview technique was applied. Moreover, for the analysis of the data, Nvivo 11 program was used and the data was analyzed through content analysis technique. According to the results obtained from the study, it was identified that nearly all the participant students experienced foreign language anxiety in classroom. In addition, the reasons why students experienced foreign language speaking anxiety, the reflections of this anxiety into their in-classroom performances, students’ opinions about their feelings during anxiety condition were determined and some recommendations about this subject matter were maintained. 

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