An Analysis of First Year Students’ Speaking Anxiety toward Their Speaking Skill at a Public University in Vietnam

This article is aimed to show the results of the study attempting to analyze the first year students speaking anxiety at a public university in Vietnam. The research study followed a group of 25, selected male and female first year students at Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI), Vietnam. Research method was quasi-experimental design with two way ANOVA. It was conducted for about 10 weeks. According to the results of speaking test, findings showed that using Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) had positive meaningful effect on improving students’ speaking skill viewed from different speaking anxiety. To sum up, CLT is an effective method to teach students’ speaking skill viewed from different speaking anxiety.