SPEAKING ANXIETY EXPERIENCED BY FIFTH-SEMESTER STUDENTS IN LEARNING SPEAKING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

This study aimed at finding out the kinds of students’ speaking anxiety in learning speaking, the causes of students’ speaking anxiety in learning speaking, and the strategies used by the students in overcoming their anxiety in learning speaking. This study used descriptive qualitative method research design. The data were collected from the fifth-semester students of the English Language Education Department at University of Muhammadiyah Malang. The researcher chose the subjects by using purposive sampling technique. The instruments to collect the data was an interview guide. The result of the data analysis showed that there were three kinds of anxiety faced by fifth-semester students. They were state anxiety, trait anxiety, and situation-specific anxiety. It was also found that there were three causes of students’ speaking anxiety, namely: (1) the students lacked of communication apprehension because of the linguistics factor such as lack of English knowledge about vocabulary, grammar structure, and pronunciation; (2) they feared of the test during speaking class in which some of the students worried and panicked when their speaking performance was going to be scored by their lecturer; and (3) they feared of negative evaluation in which they were afraid of negative comments and corrections from the lecturer or their classmates during their performances in English speaking class. Furthermore, it was also found the strategies used by the students in overcoming their anxiety during speaking class, namely: having preparation before joining class, having positive thinking, doing relaxation, and also peer seeking