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    Area of Observation Research Issue. Behavior Anxiety Level

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    This document outlines an observation study to understand how anxiety affects English oral performance in students from the University of Nariño Language Center. The researcher will observe students' behavior and anxiety levels during oral activities like presentations, answering questions, group discussions. To get more detailed personal information, some students will then be interviewed about their language learning experiences, feelings during oral tasks, causes of anxiety, and ways they cope with nervousness. The goal is to identify strategies that help second language learners control anxiety to improve their oral performance.

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    This document outlines an observation study to understand how anxiety affects English oral performance in students from the University of Nariño Language Center. The researcher will observe students' behavior and anxiety levels during oral activities like presentations, answering questions, group discussions. To get more detailed personal information, some students will then be interviewed about their language learning experiences, feelings during oral tasks, causes of anxiety, and ways they cope with nervousness. The goal is to identify strategies that help second language learners control anxiety to improve their oral performance.

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    This document outlines an observation study to understand how anxiety affects English oral performance in students from the University of Nariño Language Center. The researcher will observe students' behavior and anxiety levels during oral activities like presentations, answering questions, group discussions. To get more detailed personal information, some students will then be interviewed about their language learning experiences, feelings during oral tasks, causes of anxiety, and ways they cope with nervousness. The goal is to identify strategies that help second language learners control anxiety to improve their oral performance.

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    This document outlines an observation study to understand how anxiety affects English oral performance in students from the University of Nariño Language Center. The researcher will observe students' behavior and anxiety levels during oral activities like presentations, answering questions, group discussions. To get more detailed personal information, some students will then be interviewed about their language learning experiences, feelings during oral tasks, causes of anxiety, and ways they cope with nervousness. The goal is to identify strategies that help second language learners control anxiety to improve their oral performance.

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    Observation Grid: The Effects of Anxiety on English Oral Performance of Students from the University of Nariño Language Center

    Date: Site Location: Start Time: Stop Time:


    Research Issue.
    Area of Observation
    Behavior Anxiety Level

    Doing a Presentations

    Teacher's Questions

    Giving an Answer

    Participation |

    Group Dialogues

    Other Areas:

    Reflexive Comments
    In order to understand better the feelings that students go through when performing

    speaking activities, an interview is conducted helping the researcher obtained more detailed

    information about anxiety. If anxiety is affecting students when participating in oral

    activities, then the students themselves are the ones who can provide the feelings they go

    through when speaking in the target. Not having an optimal proficiency in the language can

    be the result of different factors, so to recognize if anxiety is the one affecting the oral

    performance an interview might be the most useful tool. An interview helps to collect

    personal thoughts that observations might not be capable of, so the researcher has a more

    complete data for analyzing it and come up with possible strategies.

    After the observations some students will be interviewed in order to have more information

    regarding anxiety presence and its possible causes and effects on the oral performance.

    Students will be asked questions that might be considered personal and also permission to

    be recorded during the whole interview.


    1. Do you think your personality is introvert or extrovert?

    2. Can you please share with me your English learning experience? What do you think

    of your English proficiency?

    3. What is your previous experience with speaking activities? Did you feel nervous or

    not?

    4. Do you like in-class oral activities? Yes or not, and why?

    5. Do you feel nervous when the teacher asks you a question in English? Why?

    6. Do you like taking part in group discussions in class?

    7. How do you feel when taking part in a role-play or dialogue in front of your class?

    8. Do you like speaking informally with your teacher out of class? How often do you

    do it?

    9. Do you take oral tests? If you do, how do you feel when taking oral test? Do you

    feel more nervous than other normal speaking activities?

    10. In your opinion, what are the causes of your nervousness or anxiety in the

    presentation?

    11. Are there any ways for you to cope with your nervousness or anxiety in the

    presentations?

    If yes, please provide some details.

    (If the student seems not clear about the last question, I would ask “what procedures may

    help you feel relieved?)


    Anxiety learning a second language has been studied by many researchers who have given

    different points of view about this phenomenon. In this opportunity, the research

    objective is to look for strategies that help second language learners to control the

    feelings which cause anxiety. The data collection tool is an observation grid which will help

    us focus on the behavior that students have when they are exposed in a second language

    environment such as the classroom, and the level of anxiety that the students present

    when they have to perform an oral demonstration. This information will be very useful

    when creating different strategies to help students to control or avoid problems of anxiety

    when they do oral performances in the target language.

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