The Impact of Fear of Making Errors on EFL Learners’ Oral Performance

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the impact of fear of making errors on learners‟ oral performance. It depends on the descriptive method in order to describe the relationship between the two variables; fear of making errors as a independent variable and students oral performance as a dependent variable. This research hypothesizes that the more students feel fear of making errors the less they could perform effectively. As a tool of research, the data is obtained through students‟ questionnaire and interview. The participants of this study are the third year LMD students of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University of Jijel who are 286 student. The information gathered from the questionnaire is analyzed by using statistics while the interview data is gathered, transcribed and coded. The revealed results from both the questionnaire and the interview affirm that fear of making errors affects students‟ oral performance negatively and also there are many factors that hinder students oral performance like shyness, anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, lack of self confidence and lack of vocabulary.