An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety in English Classroom

Abstract

Anxiety is a feeling of stress, pressure, nervousness, and apprehension which occurs due to the functioning of the system in autonomic sensory. In some situations, speaking anxiety may occur in students when answering questions, oral presentations, and prepared speeches. This research is about an analysis of student’s speaking anxiety in English classroom. The aim of this research was to analyze the level of students’ speaking anxiety, the dominant type of anxiety, and strategies that students use to overcome their anxiety. The research methodology was qualitative-quantitative methods. The technique of collecting data that is applied by the writer is questionnaire (open and close questionnaire). The data which have been collected are analyzed by using the theory from Horwitz (level anxiety and dominant type of anxiety) and David Shinji Kondo (anxiety coping strategies). The finding shows that mostly students experienced Mildly Anxious in 58% of respondents (21 students), and mostly Test Anxiety was the dominant type that experienced by the students in 67% of respondents (24 students). The most strategies that used by the students to overcome their anxiety in speaking skill was relaxation, there were 27 students used it by praying, drinking water, take a deep breath, squeezing hands, imagining idol and try to calm down.