THE STUDENTS' ANXIETY IN SPEAKING SKILL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

There are some reasons that studying foreign languages such as English language is essential for university students. Since English language becomes a foreign language in Indonesia, it causes more challenges for language learners to learn and do practicing the English language. Zheng (2008) states that learning English as a second language is also associated with the foreign language anxiety. When the foreign language learners faced some difficulties in using target language, language anxiety might happen. The purposes of this study are to find out the types of anxiety experienced by the 3rd student of English Language Education in learning “speaking” subject, the factors which cause their anxiety, and the ways to cope with their anxiety in learning “speaking” subject. The researcher focused on analyzing the types of anxiety experienced, the factors which cause anxiety, and the ways to cope with their anxiety in learning “speaking” subject. Furthermore, the research subject was the students in 3rd semester who finished accomplishing “speaking’ subject. By using qualitative descriptive research, this study was intended to identify and describe the focus of research questions mentioned above. Also, the observation field notes and interview guide were used as the instruments to collect the data. The results found that there were two types of anxiety experienced by the 3rd semester student of English Language Education in learning “speaking” subject. First type was state anxiety and the second one was situation-specific anxiety. The factors which cause their anxiety were found as follow: (1) lack of confident, (2) communication apprehension, (3) afraid of making mistakes, (4) afraid of foreign teachers and fear of negative evaluation. Finally, the ways the students cope with their anxiety were learning how to relax, knowing what to say, and being familiar with the audiences