Analysing listening anxiety levels of learners in the EFL classrooms

Abstract

Listening is considered a difficult skill, and also listening is often neglected compared to other skills, exactly reading, writing, and speaking skills. Listening is one of the essential skills in second or foreign language learning that gives opportunities to communicate with other language speakers, as without listening communication cannot be complete. In oral communication listening has the significant role and anxiety has influence on students’ listening comprehension. Anxiety is the powerful factor, which blocks learners’ listening comprehension. The purpose of the present research was to analyze listening anxiety levels of learners in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learning classrooms. The participants of this research were 109 students from two different schools in Turkistan. The participants consisted of 10th -11th grade students from №2 Hamza general secondary school (n=46) and №17 Ataturk gymnasium school (n=63). This study used quantitative descriptive research design. A survey method using questionnaire was used in order to collect necessary data and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. According to the results, it was found that EFL learners have a high listening anxiety level. More precisely, it was found that EFL students face more difficulties when they hear different kind of pronunciations.