Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract

Name : Inayatullah
Student No. : 1106102020091
Study Program : English Education
Title : The Anxiety Factors in Speaking among Internship Students
in Classroom and Their Efforts to Solve the Problems

Keywords: speaking anxiety factors, efforts, speaking skill, internship students.


This study was intended to discover the speaking anxiety factors in class of internship students and to investigate the students’ efforts to solve the speaking anxiety during their internship program. This research used qualitative method. The research subjects were 30 English internship students of Syiah Kuala University in 2015. Data were collected through questionnaire and interview. The data collected were analyzed qualitatively using words. The study discovered that the major factors of students’ speaking anxiety divided into two interrelated groups; psychological and educational factors. Regarding to the psychological factors, the students were anxious and feeling fear of having misunderstanding teachers’ instruction and supervision. The educational factors were reflecting to the current bad performance of speaking skill aspects namely; inaccurate of fluency, inappropriate of vocabulary, inappropriate application of grammar rule, insufficient materials preparation and poor of pronouncing words. Nevertheless, 16 internship students who were indicated high level of speaking anxiety used various efforts to solve the speaking anxiety such as; practicing, listening to native speaker’s utterance, reading English texts, memorizing words, keeping using English in class, learning grammar rule, making note, preparing the material and using audio dictionary. This study concludes that everyone has anxiety and it is common, yet this problem could be reduced by doing some efforts.

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