An Analysis Of Students’ Speaking Anxiety At The Fifth Semester English Language Program Of Fkip Uir Pekanbaru

An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety at the Fifth Semester English Language Program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru. Thesis. Pekanbaru: English Study Programme, Education and Teacher Training Faculty, Islamic University of Riau. Keywords: Analysis, Speaking Anxiety Speaking anxiety is something that is more likely to depend on special situations and circumstances that can make someone feel uncomfortable in oral presentation in front of a larger group or people. Thus, speaking anxiety in this research relates to the feeling of nervous, uncomfortable, and unconfident and fear when the learners speaking English. The objective of this research was to find out the students speaking anxiety at the fifth semester English language program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru The design of this research was the descriptive quantitative with only using one variable that is students speaking anxiety. To analyze the data, the researcher used the theory of Horwitz et.al about the speaking anxiety. The writer analyzed communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation of the fifth semester students of English language program of FKIP UIR Pekanbaru. There were 36 students as the participants of this research. The study reveals that variable speaking anxiety is categorized into medium level (mean score = 108.53, Standard Deviation was 15.834). It can be seen that almost a half of students; 31 (86.11%) from 36 students had medium anxiety in speaking. Moreover, the highest construct that influence speaking anxiety was the communication apprehension (Mean = 42.6, SD= 5.325) rather than test anxiety (Mean = 29.58, SD= 4.436) and fear of negative evaluation (Mean = 36.53, SD= 7.803). From the result of the questionnaire, the students most of the participants thought that they afraid if there is an error in the pronunciation of words in their speaking. They felt panic when many words that they did not know in the exam. The result also revealed that they fear of being laughed at, they dare not ask if encounter difficult words