The study is about the correlation between listening anxiety and vocabulary knowledge. The aim of the study is to find out whether students experience listening anxiety and the correlation between listening anxiety and vocabulary knowledge. The study included 35 students from Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia consisting
of 29 students taking Listening & Speaking in Academic Context this semester and 6 students took Listening & Speaking in Academic Context last semester. The instruments used in this study were a questionnaire adapted from Kim (2002), vocabulary knowledge test adapted from Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham (2001) and interview questions adapted
from Kim (2002). Based on the study that was analysed by using McCroskey (1970) method and SPSS, the results showed that students have high listening anxiety and there is a low correlation between listening anxiety and vocabulary knowledge. |