AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING ANXIETY IN READING ALOUD AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAS AL HUDA IN THE SECOND SEMESTER ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

EMIRA, INOSADHANI (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING ANXIETY IN READING ALOUD AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAS AL HUDA IN THE SECOND SEMESTER ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Anxiety was one of the affective factors which play an important role in learning second or foreign language. It created cognitive, physiological, and behavioral responses. Reading aloud was an instructional practice where teachers or students read text aloud. The reader combined variations in pitch, tone, pace, volume, pauses, eye contact, questions, and comments to produce a fluent and enjoyable delivery. The objectives of this research were to describe what were the factors of the students’ anxiety in reading aloud and to describe how was the student’s strategies to overcome the anxiety in reading aloud. This research used a descriptive research with a qualitative method. There were two instruments of this research namely interview and questionnaire. This research was analyzed the data at the eleventh grade which consisted of 28 students in 1 class. The population of research were in 5 classes with 168 students. The researcher used purposive sampling in taking the sample of research. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the factors of the students’ anxiety in reading aloud were vocabulary knowledge, pronunciation, meaning of idiom, phrase and formal classroom environment. The differences of culture native and non-native language style did not matter for them. The strategies that mostly used by the students to overcome the anxiety in reading aloud were generate question, promote talks, pay attention to text structure, takes notes, PQ4R exercise, summarize and monitor understanding. Therefore, the students were advised to practice a lot in reading aloud so that pronunciation could become better like that of a native speaker and the students are advised to read a lot of dictionaries so that they have a lot of vocabulary knowledge. Keywords: Reading Anxiety, Reading Aloud, Factor of Anxiety

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