A Study on Senior High School Students Speaking Anxiety in English Classes

Foreign language classroom anxiety is one of the emotional factors that hinder the foreign language learning process. This study takes 246 students from three ordinary high schools in Wuzhou. It adopts quantitative research and qualitative research methods to investigate the present status of their speaking anxiety. The results of the questionnaire were calculated using the statistical software SPSS19.0 for data analysis. The main finding shows that the overall level of English speaking anxiety of senior high school students is a little bit high. Among these anxieties, classroom anxiety has the highest average, followed by fear of negative evaluation anxiety, and communication apprehension anxiety. Finally, the author comes up with some suggestions on how to reduce the English-speaking anxiety of senior high school students. The research findings in this paper show that oral English teaching needs to be improved in relieving students' anxiety. This paper hopes to explore the causes of anxiety and propose countermeasures to reduce students' oral English anxiety.