The Students' Speaking Anxiety on Speaking Performance at UINSI Samarinda

Abstract

ABSTRACT. One of the main skills for learning English is speaking. However, most students experienced a feeling of anxiety in speaking English as a foreign language. The purpose of this research was to determine the kinds and causes of students' anxiety in speaking English in the 7th semester of English Education students at UINSI Samarinda. This research used a descriptive qualitative method with a case study approach. In doing this research, the researcher collected the data, made an analysis, and finally made a conclusion. The data were collected using interview and documentation, then analyzed using the interactive model of Miles, Hubberman, and Saldana. The results showed that there were three kinds of students’ anxiety in speaking English, namely trait anxiety, a more permanent tendency to be nervous. State anxiety is a fear that is perceived as a reaction to a definite situation at a specific moment in time. Anxiety in specific situations refers to the recurrent and multi-faceted existence of such anxieties. There were also three causes of students’ anxiety in speaking English, namely communication apprehension, which is a kind of anxiety concerns about learners’ incapability to sufficiently express the thought and build communication with other individuals and make them understand what the speaker said. Test anxiety is the fear of failure in tests and a disagreeable experience in many circumstances that learners keep either consciously or unconsciously. Fear of negative evaluation, anxiety about the judgments of others, anxiety about their negative assessments, and the expectation that others would judge themselves skeptically.