Speaking anxiety of Kurdish candidate teachers of English with foreign lecturers

Abstract EN

Speaking anxiety is one of the challenging difficulties for language learners.

Even if they are going to be language teachers, some student teachers may also have the same problem when they talk to foreigners.

In this research, reasons for speaking anxiety of candidate teachers talking to their foreign lecturers are portrayed as a result of interviews with them.

Some candidate teachers of English Language Teaching Department of Ishik University, Erbil, were interviewed about their holding off speaking to their foreign lecturers while this is supposed to be a good practice for their speaking skills.

Some solutions for students and lecturers are also suggested for this problem.