An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety at The Fourth Semester English Students of Unirow Tuban
Keywords:
Analysis, Students, Speaking AnxietyAbstract
Speaking is the main skill that has important role in learning language. The researcher feels interested and curious to know speaking anxiety at the fourth semester English students of Unirow Tuban because speaking anxiety is very common problem that
influences students‘ speaking performance. The purpose of the study are : (1) To describe the kinds of speaking anxiety faced by
fourth semester English students of Unirow Tuban.(2) To find out the students‘ strategies to overcome the speaking anxiety in the speaking activity. In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research design to get the valid data. The technique of
collecting data are: interview and questionnaire as called Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The subject of this study are 27 students from Fourth semester English students of UNIROW Tuban The result of this study showed that students faced some speaking anxiety. It is concluded that students were anxious to speak English in class which were caused by many factors that come from psychological factor. Then, to overcome this problem, the researcher found solutions to overcome and reduce speaking anxiety. The students‘ strategies to overcome speaking anxiety were learning more about grammar, practicing speaking at home
regularly, trying to relax, etc. Based on data above, there are so many strategies that used by the students to overcome speaking anxiety. But, the researcher concluded that learning more about grammar, learning new vocabulary, practicing regularly and trying to feel confident were mostly used by the students to overcome speaking anxiety in classroom.
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