The goal of this quantitative study is to fill the research gap and determine the teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the reasons for speaking anxiety in English for specific purposes (ESP). A survey was carried out with 335 students and 24 teachers of ESP from 18 Slovenian higher educational institutions responding to a purposely constructed questionnaire. ESP students emphasized a lack of the knowledge of the carrier content in English and their mother tongue, whereas the teachers stated that oral tests, failing to speak fluently and concern about being looked down upon for making mistakes in real and carrier content are crucial causes of ESP students’ speaking anxiety. A lack of the knowledge of the carrier content is an important reason for speaking anxiety that language teachers in ESP are not aware of to a sufficient extent.

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师生对英语口语焦虑特定原因的看法

这项定量研究的目的是填补研究空白​​，并确定教师和学生对于特定目的英语口语焦虑原因的理解（ESP）。斯洛文尼亚18所高等教育机构的335名学生和24名ESP老师进行了调查，并回答了有针对性的问卷。ESP学生强调英语和母语对航母内容的了解不足，而教师则表示口试，口语不流利，担心因在真实和航母内容上犯错误而被人轻视是造成这种情况的主要原因。 ESP学生的口语焦虑。缺乏对载体内容的了解是导致语言焦虑的一个重要原因，而ESP中的语言教师对此没有足够的了解。