An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety at the 10th Grade of SMK 2 PGRI Kediri
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Speaking is the ability to say articulation sounds or words to express and convey thoughts, ideas, and feelings. The purpose of speaking is to communicate. Through speaking students can give opinions, suggestions, and ask questions to someone or listeners verbally. Anxiety is a feeling of fear, anxiety or hesitation in speaking. In the teaching and learning process, many students experience anxiety when they give opinions, answer questions and speak in learning English. Qualitative research was used as a method with a case study approach. The case study approach will permit the writer to study on specific students in order to understand the case of language anxiety. The result of this research shows that the most aspects that bothered students in English class are speaking activities and unclear explanation. Students felt anxious when they do not understand what their teacher is talking about, they also said that they felt anxious because they did not have enough preparation. Students also felt anxious when they are being ridiculed by peers or classmates. In addition, they felt anxious because they have lack or limited of grammar and vocabulary, so that they felt that the other peers are better than them. Great affirmation of the presence of student’s anxiety in learning English will completely impact the teacher in treating the students properly
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