STUDENTS’ ANXIETY OF SPEAKING ENGLISH IN PUBLIC

Andi Ahmad Fauzi, Diana Putri, Tifa Rahman

Abstract


Speaking skill is the most important skill to acquire in foreign language learning. Among the four key language skills, speaking is deemed to be the most important skill in learning a foreign language. The ability to speak a foreign language is predominantly influenced by one of the problems, namely speaking anxiety. This study aims to investigate the students’ speaking anxiety among college students. It focuses to reveal in what situation students feel anxious, the causal factors that make students feel anxious when speaking English in public, and how they overcome anxiety. This study applied descriptive qualitative to answer the research questions. The data were obtained through observation and interview. It was shown that the factors that made students feel anxious when speaking in English were lack of preparation, afraid of making mistakes, afraid of being laughed by friends, nervous when standing in front of people, afraid of being wrong to pronounce and choosing the words in English

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35194/cp.v0i0.1320

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