A Study on Students’ Strategies To Reduce Anxiety In Speaking Class On Second Semester Students Of English Education Program At IAIN Tulungagung Academic Year 2013/2014

Keywords: Anxiety, Students’ Anxiety, Causes Anxiety, Reduce Anxiety, Speaking Class Learning English is very important, because English has became an international language, which is used by most communities in the world. Many countries use English as their second language. English lessonserves as a meansof self-developmentof studentsin science, especially speaking as one of the English skill that must be concerned by whole learner in communication. Speaking ability is the main part in communication, but sometimes students have an anxiety which impedes their ability to perform successfully in foreign language class. Anxiety is the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of autonomic nervous system. Concerning to this problem, the students needs to strategies to reducing anxiety in speaking English and teacher needs to help students’ anxiety about learning English especially in speaking as easy as possible.The strategies that the students use very useful to reduce anxiety in speaking class. Some students have suggested a variety of strategies to successfully in reducing students’ anxiety. The formulation of the research problems is: 1) what are the causes of the students’ anxiety and 2) how the students’ anticipate to reduce their anxiety in speaking class. The purpose of this study were: 1) To know the causes of students’ anxiety in speaking class, 2) To know the students’ anticipates to reduce their anxiety in speaking class. The research method: 1) the research design in this study was qualitative approach and case study. 2) The subject of this study was second semester students of class 2 C who consisting of 30 students, but the researcher took only 4 of them to collect the data by ways choose students. 3) The data was got by distributing observation and interview. The result showed that the causes of students’ anxiety is shown as follows: there are two factors. They are personal factors and interpersonal factors. The first personal factors means personality. such as feeling ashamed and fear if making mistake, lack of self-confidence if in front of class with what that said, feeling nervous to express opinion in front of classmates, less in speaking’ knowledge, fear if vocabulary and arrange grammar is wrong, cant’ speaking English correctly, less of mastering vocabulary, mistake in speaking English sentence and words, feel worried when know that will take an English speaking test and also fear of mind the blank when mistakes. The second interpersonal factors means between two or more people. such as direct correction from lecturer if wrong in speaking, feeling her friends have high ability than him, fear of laughed by classmates when making mistakes, forget the answer while speaking English if her friends and lecturer keep looking at her and difficult in understanding with clearly what lecturer said or lecturer speaks not clearly/fast. Students’ strategies to reduce anxiety in speaking class applying the strategies; trying to say what is coming to them mind, looking for a similar word that has meaning. keeping on trying to say and stay calm, just concentrate to finish them presentation, trying to make jokes and insert funny story, to assume that all the friends also feel the same way, to believe in themselves that they can absolutely do it and beat her fear, a little memorizing vocabulary for the preparation of talk, speaking for themselves at home as training, trying to hear and stay calm when lecturers explains material, ask them friends and lecturer when not understand, do every task of the lecturers as much as possible, trying to find synonym of the word, and preparing as much as possible what they’ll sa