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Public Speaking Anxiety is a nightmare for every EFL learner as it requires them to speak in front of an audience inducing fear and problems accompanied with this apprehension.The study is an exploration intended to assess the effectiveness of the intervention of 'Shadowing TED Talk' on the Public Speaking Class Anxiety among EFL undergraduate students. The present study adopted a Quasi - experimental research design. 70 EFL undergraduate students were selected for the study. 34 Students were grouped in the Experimental group and 36 students were in the Control group. Within-group, Between-group, Pre-test and Post-test design were adopted. The Public Speaking Class Anxiety Scale (PSCAS) was administered pre-and post the study to both the groups. The findings and analysis ascertained that the intervention of Shadowing TED talks is significant and effective in lowering the anxiety levels in EFL learners of a public speaking class. The findings reflected a statistically significant difference in anxiety levels at the beginning of the study favouring low levels after shadowing at the end of the study. Using the technique of 'shadowing an online tool such as a TED talk' between the control group and Experimental group, the findings demonstrated that there were statistically significant differences between the Post-test PSCAS scores of the control group and the experimental group.