General Communication Anxiety among EFL Students; A Case of Iranian Students of Intensive English Programs

This paper explores communication anxiety among Iranian students undergoing intermediate and low intermediate intensive English programs in a public university in the south of Malaysia. The investigation focuses on the level of anxiety based on the following three components: communication apprehension (CA), test anxiety (TA), and fear of negative evaluation (FNE). A set of questionnaire, adopted from Ooi Youn Phaik [11], and Young [12], and Sarason [13] was developed to be aligned with the three components. The differences in the level of anxiety between gender, intermediate and low intermediate students are also discussed in this paper.