English Speaking Anxiety Among UHAMKA Mobility Students’ The Program At The Universiti Utara Malaysia

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Muhammad Fariz Aswad. 1501055068. English Speaking Anxiety among
UHAMKA Mobility Students’ The Program at The Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Skripsi, Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2019.
This study was conducted to investigate the factors influencing English speaking
anxiety among UHAMKA mobility students’ program at Universiti Utara
Malaysia. The purpose of the study is to identify the factors influencing their
anxiety while speaking English when they were at the Universiti Utara Malaysia.
The writer uses on qualitative approach to get in-depth information about the
issue. The semi-structured interviews were carried out with six UHAMKA
Mobility Students’ Program to gain insight into their obstacles while speaking
English; five students from guidance and counseling majors and one student from
English education majors were interviewed. The collected data were transcribed
and analyzed using thematic analysis. The finding indicates that dominant factors
of speaking anxiety stated by UHAMKA mobility students’ are from language
barriers such as; fear of being laughed at, improper grammar, lack of vocabulary,
communication apprehension, and fear of negative evaluation. Therefore, the
factors mentioned by the participants caused them to avoid any interactions that
require them to speak in English