Alleviating Students' Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety through Cooperative Learning

This paper presents the alleviation of students' foreign language speaking anxiety FLSA by using cooperative learning in English Foreign Language classrooms. To investigate the cause factors of students' FLSA, both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The quantitative dada were collected by two questionnaires before and after cooperative learning session. Qualitative method was chosen through face to face interview to get in depth data or information about students' FLSA. The results showed that there were many reasons for why students encounter speaking anxiety and using cooperative learning was believed to alleviate students' FLSA significantly. Pale Mon "Alleviating Students' Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety through Cooperative Learning" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26590.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/26590/alleviating-students%E2%80%99-foreign-language-speaking-anxiety-through-cooperative-learning/pale-mon