The Factors Contributing to Students’ Anxiety in Speaking Performance at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department of the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2019/2020 Academic Year

silih warni, ph.d;

PUNGKY MAUREN. 1601055059. The Factors Contributing to Students’ Anxiety in Speaking Performance at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department of the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2019/2020 Academic Year. A paper; Jakarta: The Study Progamme of English Education, The School of Teacher’s Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2020.
This research is aimed to get empirical evidence of the factors that contribute to students’ anxiety in speaking performance. The writer uses mixed method in this research. The writer used quantitative approach because the writer used numeric data of the questionnaire about students’ anxiety and used the qualitative approach because the writer used the phenomenology data to explore the factors that contribute to students’ anxiety in speaking performance. The participants of the research consist of 124 students from the Public Speaking classes at the fourth semester of English Education Department to fill the questionnaire and 8 students to be interviewed. The data of the research show that 46% of the students experienced the anxiety of test, 35% of the student have problems with communication apprehension. And 19% of them were getting anxious in negative evaluation. All of these anxiety distribution shows that most of the student felt scared and nervous to speak up in English language in front of the class, they felt scared of difficult subjects, they fear of making mistakes, they felt afraid of being made fun of by some friends, they felt fear of a negative evaluation from the lecturer, lack of preparation, lack of vocabulary and lack of confidence. All of these become the factors that contribute to students’ anxiety in their speaking performance during the Public Speaking class at the fourth semester of the 2019/2020 academic year.