Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among International Students at Indonesian Universities

fania fauziah; herri mulyono, ph.d; ratih novitasari, m.pd.;

FERAWATI. Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety among International Students at Indonesian Universities. A Paper, Jakarta, The Study Program of English Education, The Faculty of Teacher Training and Pedagogy, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2018
The study explores foreign language speaking anxiety among international tertiary students in Indonesia. The purpose of the study is to document the factors encountered to their anxiety while speaking English. The study draws on qualitative method to get in-depth information about the issue. The semi-structured interviews were carried out with seven international students to gain insights into their barriers while speaking English. Based on these interviews, the collected data were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. The result revealed that there were recurring and emerging themes which led the students to experience facilitative and debilitative speaking anxiety with their peers. Language barriers, negative attitudes, intercultural communication apprehension were identified to provoke FLSA among the students. These factors also played parts to interfere them with daily communication. The implications of the findings are discussed in thestudy.