AN ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH IN SPEAKING CLASS (A Study in the 2nd Semester Students of International Class Program (KKI) of IAIN Salatiga in the Academic Year 2015/2016

Ula, Ati Saidatul (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING ANXIETY IN THE PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH IN SPEAKING CLASS (A Study in the 2nd Semester Students of International Class Program (KKI) of IAIN Salatiga in the Academic Year 2015/2016. Other thesis, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan.

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Abstract

To speak in foreign languages students certainly will experience various obstacles. One of the barriers is from psychological aspect, which is anxiety. This study is intended to know the level of students’ anxiety and figure out how the students’ speaking ability can be described from their anxiety level. The subject of this research, the researcher takes a class of 2nd semester students of International Class Program (KKI) of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year 2015/2016. This research used a descriptive quantitative approach. The writer used two kinds of instruments to collect the data. The first instrument is Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale questionnaire, developed by Horwitz et al. (1986). It consists of 33 items with 5 point Likert-Scale. The second instrument is the final score from speaking test. The result of this research show that most of the students are at “Mildly Anxious” level with no “Very Anxious” student. There are 5 (29%) students who experience “Anxious” level, 9 (53%) students are in “Mildly Anxious” level, 2 (12%) students have “Relaxed” level, and only 1 (6%) student from 17 students is in “Very Relaxed” level. This research also gives a description that; anxious students are not necessarily having low score, and mildly anxious students might not always have good score.

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