Hybrid Learning: A Qualitative Study of Learners’ Anxiety in Language Classrooms

Abstract

: This qualitative study aims to investigate the sources of foreign language anxiety among undergraduate students participating in the hybrid learning classrooms. The primary objective of this study was to identify factors that may cause foreign language classroom anxiety, and factors that may reduce anxiety to better understand the impact that anxiety may have in learning an English as a foreign language. The sample groups in the study were purposively selected from the students studying English course as a compulsory subject in a Thai university. To collect the data, a semi-structured interviews has been employed. The data, then, were qualitatively analyzed through the thematic analysis. The findings show that the psycholinguistics, and socio-cultural aspects of language learning and communication that may induce English language anxiety among EFL students in the language classroom. The necessity of English language teachers identifying and understanding these anxiety provoking causes to create an anxiety-free learning environment which helps students make progress in their English development.