The Interplay Between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Willingness to Communicate in Advanced EFL Learners in Kerman

The current paper aims at exploring the interplay between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety(FLCA) and Willingness to Communicate(WTC). Sixty subjects from three language institutes and some university students in Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman who were from different fields of study participated in this project. The results showed that FLCA has a positive relationship with both subcategories of WTC and with WTC as a whole contrastingly (It was assumed that FLCA and WTC have a negative relationship with one another). This paper concludes with some suggestions for further research in this area and related areas.

Keywords:

Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety(FLCA) , Horwitz’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale(FLCAS) , Willingness to Communicate(WTC) , McCroskey’s view of WTC