AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY IN AN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) (A Descriptive Study at Fourth Semester Students of Psychology Faculty in UMP in Academic Year 2016/2017)

MUSHOLLINA, NASYIATUL (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY IN AN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) (A Descriptive Study at Fourth Semester Students of Psychology Faculty in UMP in Academic Year 2016/2017). Bachelor thesis, UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH PURWOKERTO.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to know the level of students’ speaking anxiety and find out the most influencing component caused students’ speaking anxiety. The sample of this research was 50% out of the population or which equals 62 fourth semester students of Psychology Faculty in UMP in academic year 2016/2017. The method was Descriptive quantitative, where this research used random sampling to collect the data. From the analyses result, the level of students’ speaking anxiety was 60%, and it belonged to mildly anxious. Whereas the highest influencing component was Fear of Negative Evaluation (64.3%), the second was Communication Apprehension (61.7%), then Test Anxiety (61.6%), and the last was English Classroom Anxiety (54.2%). From the result, it can be concluded that the most influencing component caused the students speaking anxiety was Fear of Negative Evaluation, the example were answer unexpecte question without any preparation, felt other students were better in speaking, and also felt English class run quickly. Some psychology students claimed that they were afraid when the lecturer called them to answer the question spontaneously, so the lecturer should give the students time to prepare before answering the question, give the motivation, and give the material step by step.

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