Speaking Anxiety of First Semester Students of English Education Department at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 2018

SPEAKING ANXIETY OF FIRST SEMESTER STUDENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA IN 2018 ABSTRACT DYAH PERMATA SIWI LAMILA. A320140067. SPEAKING ANXIETY OF FIRST SEMESTER STUDENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DE-PARTMENT AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA IN 2018. Research Paper. School of Teacher Training and English end Education. Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta 2020, 66 Pages. Speaking is one way of someone to convey an intent or purpose such as making a presentation or speech in public, asking and answering questions, asking for help or just talking with friends or family. But speaking is also a problem of some people who have excessive anxiety and fear of being criticized by others, so some of them choose to silent. This can be said as speaking anxiety. The study aims to identify the types of speaking anxiety, describe the types of speaking anx-iety that often arise, and describe the causes of first semester student from De-partment of English Education at Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 2018 who experience speaking anxiety. This research was analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods. The target fom this study were 18 students from Department of English Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta in 2018. In this study, the writer used the theory of speaking anxiety classification from Tercan and Kenan (2015) and the theories from Ghufron and Rini (2009) to identify the causes of speaking anxiety. Based on speaking anxiety classification by Tercan and Kenan (2015) there are three types of anxiety, namely trait anxiety, state anxi-ety and situation-speaking anxiety. In this study, the writer found 7 data of trait anxiety, 8 data of state anxiety, and 6 data of situation-specific anxiety. State anx-iety is the dominant anxiety found in first semester students while situation-specific anxiety is the least and trait anxiety is only 5% different from the percent-age of the data. And then for the causes of student speaking anxiety based on the theory of Ghufron and Rini (2009) there are two causes, namely internal and ex-ternal. The writer found 6 internal causes, such as unconfortable, nervous, psyco-logically disturbed, worry for making mistakes, shame, and negative thinking. While for external causes the writer found 3 causes, namely fear of the lecturers, fear of being mocked and laughed, and fear in front of many people. The results showed that the cause of anxiety was dominant coming from the students them-selves. Keywords: Speaking Anxiety, Causes of Speaking Anxiety