This study sought to investigate the construct of language learning
anxiety of a sample of students studying English for academic purposes.
The study addresses the conceptualization of anxiety communicating in
English, and the relationship between this anxiety and performance in
English. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine the construct
structure and correlational analysis was used to investigate the relationship
between anxiety and oral performance in English. The study assumed language
learning anxiety to be debilitating and investigated the reported
causes using qualitative methods.