An Investigation of Students’ Anxiety in English Speaking Performance at SMPN 1 Jatiroto

Abstract

This study explains the negative statement from FLCAS points that have been divided into three aspects of anxiety causes (communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation). The researcher included all middle-grade students, 248 students in total. The researcher distributed a questionnaire in the form of a Google containing personal identity and 22 questions of FLCAS. The data are analyzed using the SPSS application. The analysis showed that the influence of varied communication apprehension on English learning anxiety was 71.41%. The fear of negative evaluation variable on English learning anxiety is 64.1%. Communication apprehension is more influential on the anxiety of learning English than the variable of fear of negative evaluation. It can be concluded that the higher the level of communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation, the higher anxiety a person will feel while learning English.

Keywords: Students Anxiety; Speaking Performance; Foreign Language Learners.