The Correlation between Listening Anxiety with Listening Motivation in Intermediate Listening Classes

Motivation has an important role in listening skills because it can make students more independent to reach their goal. This research deals with the correlation between listening motivation and anxiety of students. The purpose of this research to examine the students’ listening motivation whether, it is in correlation with their listening anxiety or not. This research involved 60 students in English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang who have already taken intermediate listening classes. This study conducted in co relational research. The random sampling technique used in this research. There were used two kinds of indirectly closed questionnaire; ELCMS and FLLAS questionnaire, which contained the rating scale. The result of the study showed that they had no correlation between listening motivation and listening anxiety (r= -160). The finding of this research revealed that the high listening motivation the students had do not close probability the low listening anxiety they had. It was also possible they had a high listening anxiety