https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaitesoljournal <p><strong>THAITESOL JOURNAL&nbsp;</strong>is published twice a year, in June and December by Thailand TESOL Organization. It is intended to provide a forum for research and the exchange of information including opinion on theory and practice in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. It is indexed in ERIC and TCI.</p> <p><strong>ISSN 2286-8909 (Print)</strong></p> <p><strong>ISSN 2697-4614 (Online)</strong></p> en-US <p><strong>Materials in THAITESOL JOURNAL may be photocopied for educational purposes. Under no circumstances may any part of this journal be photocopied for commercial purposes.</strong></p> journal.thaitesol@gmail.com (Dr. Wutthiphong Laoriandee) journal.thaitesol@gmail.com (Asst. Prof. Thanis Tangkitjaroenkun) Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:54:47 +0700 OJS 3.3.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaitesoljournal/article/view/265700 <p>This study aimed to investigate the level of communication apprehension (CA) of Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna (RMUTL) Phitsanulok students in their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes, and the factors that contributed to the emergence. It was conducted with the aid of 281 students in three different faculties, the Faculties of Business Administration and Liberal Arts (BALA), Engineering (ENG), and Science and Agricultural Technology (SAT) as respondents. A set of questionnaires was employed to gather data, and they were statistically analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.&nbsp; Results revealed that students in EFL classrooms experience an average level of CA. Answering a teacher in English seems to be the most provoking CA among students. Speaking in front of the class in English is also a context with a high level of CA among Thai university students. Furthermore, reinforcement and modeling were the highest factors that contribute to the emergence of their CA. Students tend to experience speaking anxiety in an EFL classroom because they think that they are not well-versed in English. They shun speaking situations in an EFL classroom because they think that they may be laughed at or judged by their classmates when they commit mistakes in speaking in the English language. Meanwhile, results showed that the lower the year level of students in university, the more they are apprehensive compared to the higher years. It also shows that students who do not take a lot of English courses or subjects in university tend to be more apprehensive than those students who take English courses or subjects. In addition, the lower the grades in English of Thai university students, the higher their CA would be. Lastly, they tend to be more anxious when speaking or interacting orally with native-speaker teachers compared to Asian teachers.</p> Reuben Esteban, Kannika Pratumtone Copyright (c) 2024 Reuben Esteban, Kannika Pratumtone https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thaitesoljournal/article/view/265700 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0700