Purpose of the study: This study aimed at identifying the level of Arabic language speaking anxiety and its relationship to motivation among students of religious secondary schools in Malaysia. Methodology: This quantitative study identifies the anxiety level in speaking Arabic and its relationship with motivation. A survey was done with a selected number of 500 Arabic students out of the total population throughout Malaysia. The survey was done using questionnaires that have been adapted and modified from past studies after completing its validity and reliability process. Main Findings: The findings indicate that the level of Arabic speaking anxiety among secondary religious school students in Malaysia is moderately high and also shows that students’ anxiety in speaking Arabic does not have any significant relationship with their motivation. This finding illustrates that Arabic speaking anxiety is unrelated to student motivation in learning the Arabic Language. Applications of this study: The study can be useful for Arabic Language teachers. Students with a high anxiety level will feel anxious and avoid taking part in learning activities that will then influence the quality of learning. Hence, speaking anxiety must be tackled separately by the Arabic Language teacher from motivation since there is no significant relationship between the two variables. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study produced instruments to assess the level of Arabic speaking anxiety. The result of this study is consistent with previous studies, which investigated the level of anxiety in learning a foreign language and speaking anxiety must be tackled separately from motivation because it has no significant relationship with individual students’ motivation.

Anxiety is an affective factor that plays an important role in affecting the mastery and achievement of a language learning. It should be emphasized because the process of language teaching and learning depends on students' level of emotional readiness and cognitive ability.This study aimed to explore the level of language anxiety in Arabic listening and speaking skills among Malaysian secondary school students in Malaysia. To this end, a set of Likert-scale questionnaires was distributed to 500 fourthgrade students in 20 religious secondary schools who were randomly selected randomly based on their zones in Malaysia. This study was quantitative by using descriptive data analysis. The findings indicate that the level of Arabic language proficiency in listening skills, in general, is in the medium to high level of value (Min = 3.48; SP = 0.64) and that the level of spoken anxiety is also in the medium to high level (Min = 3.29; SP = 0.57). This study suggests that teachers should always be aware of the students' psychological needs by always motivating, encouraging and using effective teaching methods so that their concerns about learning Arabic can be overcome. Selecting appropriate Arabic language learning techniques and strategies among students can also overcome the language anxiety problem among them.

Anxiety is an affective factor that plays an important role in affecting the mastery and achievement of language learning. This study aims to examine the level of oral language anxiety and its relationship with learning outcomes among religious secondary school students in Malaysia. The questionnaire was distributed to 500 form four students from 20 religious secondary schools. Findings show that the levels of oral language anxiety are moderately high level with values (Min = 3.48; SP = 0.64). The significant relationship between student learning outcomes and listening anxiety skills (r = -.121, p <.05) and speaking anxiety (r = -.154, p <. 05) at a significance level of 0.01. This study suggests that teachers should always be sensitive to the psychological needs of students by always providing motivation, and encouragement and using effective teaching methods to overcome the anxiety of learning Arabic.