Investigating Problem And Solution Of Students’ Anxiety In Speaking Class

Abstract

The primary cause of stress for students is communicating in a second language. 50% of the self-assurance-building encounter stems from utilizing speaking skill. Anxiety affects students’ academic achievement by inducing worry, insufficient self-assurance, and diminished involvement. This research aims to describe the factors which cause the students’ anxiety, find out the most dominant factor and to describe the students’ solution to overcome the anxiety. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The subjects were 32 students. Instruments of data collection used in this research were questionnaire and interview. The results of the research suggested that the factors affected students' anxiety in speaking are lack of confidence, low familiarity of tasks, low English proficiency, fear of making mistakes, and incomprehensible inputs. The most dominant factor which caused the students’ speaking anxiety is the lack of familiarity of task. The students’ solution to overcome the anxiety when speaking English still continued to speak as well as they could, tried to calm down for a moment then continued talking and lowered their voice.