Abstract:
Spoken language is the act of conveying information or expressing thoughts and feelings in English. Of the four language skills, a great deal of study on discomfort by now dedicated to oral skills. This matter as well focused on the obviousness that oral skills are possible to further nuanced than different ability. Language anxiety is a very common issue that affects student speaking output. Language anxiety, a dynamic psychological construct, is known to be an effective component in language learning. Anxiety is a feeling of fear, tension, and apprehension about what’s to come. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of students' speaking anxiety and to find out the dominant type of anxiety that occurred in the English classroom.
This research explained about analysis of the students’ speaking anxiety towards English foreign language (EFL) classroom at the third Semester English Department of University of Islam Malang in the academic year 2020-2021. The participants in this research were 33 students to answer the questionnaire and five students who had the highest score who were interviewed in-depth. The research methodology is descriptive quantitative and qualitative study. Research instruments are the questionnaire of foreign language class anxiety scale (FLCAS) adopted from Elaine Kolker Horwitz, Michael Horwitz, & Joann Cope (1986) to determine the level of students' speaking anxiety and using interview adapted from Price (1991) to find out the factor of speaking anxiety.
The results of this study show that the main anxiety level experienced by students occurs in "middle anxiety" with 43% in range (87-107). And researcher found that talking in front of the class, low self-esteem, fear of making mistakes, become the center of attention, the performance of the lecturer, and learners’ beliefs are the factors underlying speaking anxiety in the English class.
Keywords: Speaking Anxiety, Level Speaking Anxiety, Factor Speaking Anxiety