The Factors Of Students’ Anxiety In Speaking English

silih warni, ph.d; nita kaniadewi, m.pd;

TAUFIQURRAHMAN. NIM: 1501055114. The Factors of Students’ Anxiety in Speaking English. A paper, Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2019.
This qualitative research was designed to investigate the students’ speaking anxiety factors in EFL classrooms. Data collection was done by distributing the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) questionnaire adapted and modified from Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986). Forty students from the eleventh-grade of SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 11 Jakarta were asked to fill in the questionnaire to know the dominant factors which cause students’ anxiety in speaking English. In addition, the writer also conducted semi-structured interviews with eight students with the highest level of anxiety in the classrooms. The data were analyzed using qualitative analysis (coding, percentages, data reduction, data display, and data verification). The findings indicated that fear of making mistakes lead to students’ speaking anxiety with 60%, followed by fear of being laughed at 52%, lack of self-confidence 47%, and 45% for memory dissociation. Thus, to overcome this problem, the teacher should be more aware of the students’ anxiety to motivate them to speak fluently and confidently in English speaking class