| dc.description.abstract | Listening is important in language learning, including in English classroom.
However, activity in listening might lead to some problems for English Foreign
Language (EFL) students. One of them is listening anxiety. This research aimed to
investigate foreign language anxiety in listening among English Department
students in a private university in Yogyakarta. There are two research questions
proposed by the researcher. The first is ‘what are the characteristics of listening
anxiety among EFL students?’ and the second is ‘what are the factors of listening
anxiety among EFL students?’. To answer the research questions, the researcher
employed a quantitative research methodology. A questionnaire was used as an
instrument to gather the data. The questionnaire to gather information about
characteristics of listening anxiety was adopted from Stawiarska (2013) while
questionnaire to investigate factors of listening anxiety was adopted from
Kim(2000). The researcher involved a total sampling of 217 students of batch
2017 as respondents and the questionnaire was distributed to the respondents
through online media of Whatsapp and Line. This research revealed that
characteristics of listening anxiety showed by the students are that students rarely
felt confused, panic, blank, tense, stress, pounding heart and shaking. The
research also found that the frequently factor causing students anxiety is
environment atmosphere. While the moderate factors influence students listening
anxiety are the speaker, time pressure, listener, and the content. | en_US |
