The correlation between students' anxiety and students' English Vocabulary

Anxiety was frequently cited by college students as a very common factor influences them in learning the foreign language, particularly when uttering it. The literature have provided certain common issues affecting the anxiety of speaking performance among the English foreign language students. When EFL students speak English or give a presentation, they are anxious due to a variety of factors including a lack of vocabulary, memory dissociation, and English competency. This study looked into whether students' nervousness in speaking English was negatively or favorably correlated with their vocabulary mastery in the context of EFL students' speaking performance. The study was based on the notion that students' vocabulary was influenced by their fear of speaking English as a second language. The objective of the study was to examine the correlation among students’ anxiety and students’ vocabulary in relation to speaking performance of EFL college students. Using a correlational research design to determine the outcome of the research topic, this study was delivered in English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Specifically, the random sampling was used to select 73 first-semester students of English Teacher Education Department. The Data were taken from Horwitz’s Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FLAS), and Schimt’s Vocabulary Level Test (VLT). The results revealed that first-semester English Teacher Education Department students experienced a moderate level of worry in four different areas including communication apprehension anxiety, test anxiety, negative evaluation, and English classroom anxiety. While the students’ vocabulary mastery reported that the five levels in the vocabulary level test, students’ achievements were different. The results demonstrated that students’ anxiety in speaking English correlated to students’ vocabulary mastery. It had a negative correlation where the higher anxiety scale felt by a certain student, the shorter vocabulary skill achieved by them