Vol. 1 No. 01 (2022): The Relationship between Students Speaking Achievement and Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety

This study was designed to investigate the major causes of speaking anxiety and the
relationship between students speaking anxiety and student speaking achievement.
For this purpose 135 grade 12(twelve) social and natural science stream students
were randomly selected from Hawassa, Addis ketema preparatory and secondary
school. A self-reporting Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety Scale questionnaire
(FLSAS) which is consisted of 28 items was administered to measure the students’
English speaking anxiety level. To determine the relationship between the students
speaking anxiety and speaking achievement, the result of achievement test, which was
designed by the researcher, was used.