One of the most important problems for students in learning foreign language is speaking anxiety. This anxiety is experienced by foreign language learners during performing the target language in various class situations such as speaking in front of the whole class, small group discussion and whole – class discussion. This study aims at investigating ‘the Emotional Intelligence and Verbal / Linguistic Intelligence as Predictors of Speaking Anxiety’. The detailed design of the present study is based on the quantitative research method and it is designed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and speaking anxiety of Kurdistan University English students in addition to looking at relationship between Verbal / linguistic intelligence and speaking anxiety. In order to do this, the quantitative data which were collected through the questionnaires were used. The data gathered through these questionnaires were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0. To conduct this research project, firstly, eighty upper intermediate EFL learners (male and female) were chosen in this study among which 55 of them were finalized as the research target group. They are all from Kurdistan University. They were selected through convenience sampling.
