Data and analysis script for: A partner that won't laugh: Speaking anxiety and AI chatbot practice among Chinese university students

This dataset accompanies the article named in the title. It contains the anonymized item responses of 31 Chinese university learners to 15 items of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and a 10-item speaking self-efficacy questionnaire, completed before an eight-week voluntary program of speaking practice with large language model chatbots; the 248 interview turns of the 12 learners interviewed after the program, with the codes applied in the analysis; the codebook; and a Python script that reproduces every number, table, and figure in the article. Names, the institution, the city and the province have been removed. Audio recordings are not included. Start with README. md.