A Research on Speech Anxiety of the Second Grade Primary School Students

Speech enables child to express himself/herself firstly in family and inner circle, then school environment, and to communicate with his/her environment.. In the process of communication, the physical and physiological dimension as well as social and psychological dimension of speech (Demirel, 1999). During the speech, particularly speech before a group leads to speech anxiety defined as communication apprehension.. In this context the aim of this study is to determine the speaking anxieties of the elementary school students. ın Sakarya, Turkey. The universe of the research is comprised of the second grade primary school students in Sakarya. 848 students formed this universe through the stratified sampling method constitute the the sample of the research. Moreover, Speaking Anxiety Scale (SAS) developed by Yaman and Sofu (2013) was applied in order to determine their speaking anxieties. The quantitative analysis techniques were used to analyse the data. The quantitative data were transfered to SPSS 15.00 package programme. As a result of the findings obtained in the research, altough speaking ability is found in Turkish Language Teaching Curriculum, it is seen that students who study at elementary school level have a medium speaking anxiety.