STUDENTS’ ANXIETY FACTORS IN SPEAKING ENGLISH (A Case Study at the 9th Grade of SMP N 1 Bukit Kemuning) in the Academic Year of 2021/2022

SELVI, AMIYANTI (2023) STUDENTS’ ANXIETY FACTORS IN SPEAKING ENGLISH (A Case Study at the 9th Grade of SMP N 1 Bukit Kemuning) in the Academic Year of 2021/2022. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Anxiety is a feeling of discomfort, such as worry or fear,that can be mild or severe. Students anxiety is that students experience anxiety when they want to talk or answer about questions or just a little speech. Some students feel they made a mistake in front of their friends or teachers. This makes students never speak English in the teaching and learning process.This research is to find out the kind of anxieties do the students have in speaking and to identify factors that causes of students‟ anxiety in speaking English in the classrooms. Students anxiety is fear or calamity accompanied by certain physiological reactions, such as feelings in the body feel a faster heart rate, sweaty palms, and a tight stomach from someone who is anxious. Therefore, in this research investigated what factors that cause felt by students can contribute to anxiety in trying to understand the problem of speaking anxiety in English Language more deeply. This research was conducted using Descriptive Qualitative design. The population in this research was the nine grade of SMP N 1 Bukit Kemuning that was consisted of 221 students.The sample of this research was 15 students which taken by used purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation, questionnaire and interview. The researcher used three major phases of the data analysis, they were: data condensation, data display and conclusion drawing verification. From the data analysis, the researcher found some conclusion of students’ speaking anxiety at the 9th Grade of SMP N 1 Bukit Kemuning .The results of this research showed that there are 5 factors that causing students’ anxiety in speaking English. The most factors that dominated is fear of making mistakes, following by lack of vocabulary, lack of confidence, friends/classmates and type of task. And researcher also finds out 3 types of anxiety that the students experiencing in their speaking anxiety, the most factor is communication apprehension, following by test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. Keywords :, Descriptive Qualitative Research, factors of speaking anxiety,Students’ Anxiety

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