Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract

Name : Khairunnisa
Student No. : 1306102020058
Department/Program : English Education/Undergraduate
Title : ANXIETY PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED BY THE STUDENTS IN
LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL (A Library Research)



Keywords:Anxiety, speaking English, EFL, library research.
This is a library research. This study aims to investigate the factors that can
cause the students to feel anxious in speaking English according to some literatures.
Meanwhile, the object of this study is experts’ opinions about factors that made
students feel anxious in speaking English. The data of this study are the anxiety felt
by students in speaking English.There were 5 literatures as references to collect the
data. In collecting data, the researcher used content analysis. First, the researcher
found some references such as books, journals, and articles. Then, theresearcher read
and selected the needed data based on the research objective. After reviewing five
references of previous studies regarding factors that cause students’ anxiety in
speaking English, the researcher concluded that the are some factors generating
anxiety of EFL students; low self-esteem, presentation in the classroom, fear of
making mistakes, communication apprehension, test anxiety, negative evaluation,
teaching testing procedure, fear of taking risks, teacher manner, and learner’s belief.
The researcher suggests students who suffer anxiety here should be able to analyze
their own problem in speaking performance in order to find the solution to decrease
it. Another suggestion is teachers should be able to understand students’
characteristics to analyse their problem related to anxiety before finding the way to
reduce it.

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