Journal of Education and Practice www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) DOI: 10.7176/JEP Vol.10, No.2, 2019 26 Relationship Between Self-efficacy and Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety of International Students at Northeast Normal University Huma Akram 1 * Muhammad Junaid 2,1 Yang Yingxiu 3 1.Faculty of Education Northeast Normal University Changchun China 2.Professor, faculty of Education Northeast Normal University Changchun China Abstract: The existing research was conducted in order to explore the correlation between Self-efficacy and Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety among International students at NENU, Changchun, China. In that respect the intention of this survey is to probe whether international students’ Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety reveal significant variation with respect to gender, Nationality, Time lived in China, Number of Chinese Courses learned and Frequency of communication with Chinese friends in Chinese language. The research group involved 131 international students i.e. (70 males =53% and 61 females= 47%) from NENU. The study employed the quantitative method conducted through surveys by adapted questionnaires developed by Horowitz’s (1986) and Graumer Erickson, A.S.,Soukup, J.H.,Noonan, P.M., &McGurn, L.(2016). The data were examined by means of independent T-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation approaches. T-test reveals high degree of Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety among international students but found no any considerable distinction in terms of gender. While ANOVA results show a only significance difference between the numbers of Chinese courses the participants learnt. In last A Pearson’s r data revealed a weak positive association between Self-efficacy and Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety among International students at NENU. Keywords: Self-efficacy, Chinese Language Speaking Anxiety DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-2-04 1. Introduction: Higher education study in a foreign country is become a common practice whether the study is for short time, for example, for a few months to gain intercultural familiarity or for long-time, for example, to pursue an educational degree. The numbers of international students in different countries are different with increasing or decreasing digits (Andrade, 2006). International students are those students who spend their time momentarily in the foreign country for the sake of international educational exchange (Talebloo&Baki, 2013). While according to Prudence, Amy and S (2012) an international student is the one, who spend all or some part of his/her higher academic time in a country rather than his/her native one. As China is playing a primary role in the worldwide integration of higher education and world economy, a worldwide interest and significance of Chinese language learning is increasing day by day. In regards to its writing i.e. character-based and speaking is based on different tones, Chinese language is considered as the most complex foreign language for most international students, which may cause higher level of speaking anxiety among them. 1.1.1. Foreign language Speaking Anxiety: Anxiety can be referred as a mental situation of nervousness, an uncertain phobia obliquely related to anything (Scovel, 1978). From several studies it has been identified that around one-third students of foreign language experience to somewhat a mild degree of speaking anxiety (Horwitz, 2001), which affects negatively on foreign language learning ( Luo, 2013). Out of four language skills, speaking has been observed most anxiety provoking skill (Luo, 2015). Anxiety, related to the affective domain, mostly seen in speaking classes (Gardner &MacIntyre; MacIntyre, 1993) 1.1.2. Self-efficacy: Belief of individuals about their own competence for handling and operating a particular task is referred to Self- efficacy (Bandura, 1997). According to various studies anxiety is influenced by ones’ perceived self-efficacy, i.e. Self-efficacy beliefs play an integral part in the managing and directing anxiousness state. ((Zimmerman, 1999; Bandura, 1994; Usher & Pajares, 2008). Self-efficacy is commonly interrelated with certain emotional problems, including anxiety disorders (Bandura, 1997). Thus, these two variables seem inter-related to each other. However various studies have been carried out regards to investigate the association between perceived self-efficacy and non-native language speaking anxiety, but it’s not rich in context to Chinese as a foreign language. Hence this study is intended to explore the correlation between Self-efficacy and Chinese Language Speaking Anxiousness among International students at NENU, beside this, wishing to offer some useful recommendations for Chinese language teachers and for future research.