In learning process, the main purpose of students is to acquire language skills, include speaking. Speaking is a skill that students will be judged the most in real life situations. Speaking is one of central elements of communication in EFL (English as a Foreign Language), it is an aspect that needs special attention and instruction. speaking is much to be used in communication. The ability of communicators in conveying information in public had to be considered. There are lots of issues with speaking proficiency arising from the teaching of students. One of the issues affecting the students is emotional. When students are struggling, it may be challenging for them to concentrate on their academics, or it may impair their ability to see or talk clearly. Feelings of anxiety is one of problems in speaking mastery from students learning process. Anxiety can be divided such as feeling of tension, worry, and anxiety will impede students' ability to perform successfully in a foreign language classroom. Foreign language anxiety has relationship with gender. Male and female have different characteristics who can be distinguished from the way of learning in the classroom.
The study aimed to check whether there is a gender difference in a speaking anxiety. Whether there is or not difference between gender in speaking anxiety of English Language was examined deeply in this study. The design of this research was used a quantitative descriptive design to collect the data related to learning objectives. The researcher took 30 participants from the fourth semesters of University of Islam Malang. The procedure of the research applied by Google Form or questionnaire which sent to the class concerned. To analyses the data, the researcher used SPSS version 20.
The results of this research showed that male students have a higher level of foreign language anxiety in speaking than female students. There was no significance difference level of foreign language anxiety between female and male students. They only have a little bit difference based on analyzed data used independent sample t-test in SPSS software. In the midst of male and female have different characteristics, different learning strategies and cognitive ability especially in speaking class. Male more passive in the speaking class than female.
Key Words: Speaking, Anxiety, Speaking Anxiety, Foreign Language, Gender