A case study of the reasons for anxiety and its reduction in english as a foreign language classroom

This study contributes to literature by examining how anxiety reveals itself in language learning and by revealing possible causes of anxiety. This study aims at helping teachers investigate in details the students who experience the speaking anxiety problem. This study also gives teachers some suggestions about helping the students overcome their problem. As this study is a collective case study, the researcher has found the chance of investigating the anxious students and their common problems. The participants in this study were four students at Gaziantep X Medical Vocational High School. In this study, two of the students were female and the other two of the students were male. They were all ninth graders, and all of these students were afraid of speaking a foreign language as well as they are lack of self- confidence.