Online English Language Classroom Anxiety of English-Major Students Thai and Indonesian

Authors

  • Narudol Semchuchot Faculty of Education, Kasetsart University
  • Nopphawan Chimroylarp Faculty of Education, Kasetsart University
  • Faiz Fauzan Hilmi Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University
  • Malia Fitria Jantini Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University

Keywords:

Anxiety, English language classroom, English as a foreign language, Foreign language anxiety, Online classroom

Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 has moved English language classrooms to online platforms where students’ anxiety tends to be a concern. This study investigated relationships between independent variables of 48 Indonesian and 41 Thai undergraduate students majoring in English, and their online English classroom anxiety. Data from self-administered questionnaires on the anxiety were completed by 89 purposively selected respondents and analysed using chi square test. There was significant relationship between four variables and online English classroom anxiety at the significance level of .05. The findings could be a guideline for online English classroom management, and are hoped to contribute to a body of knowledge for online foreign language anxiety studies.

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2023-04-30

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