Students’ reading anxiety in English foreign language learning

The purpose of the study was to explain the students’ reading anxiety and to describe the factor cause the anxiety in the EFL learning. Research design of this study was qualitative method with a case study approach. Purpose sampling was chosen to selecting the participants. There were fifteen students at eighth graders of SMP N 2 Rakit Banjarnegara were selected as participants. The data collection of the study was interviews and have been analyzed by descriptive analysis. The results of the study showed almost students have reading anxiety when learning English. Some situations indicated students felt anxious such as confused, ashamed, unconfident, nervous. Students mostly difficult to comprehend the whole of the text, confused with the topic, strange with the vocabularies. They were also nervous while reading activities and ashamed with their pronunciation errors. Based on the indication of students’ reading anxiety there were three-point of view factors of students' reading anxiety which found they were: factors from the teacher, factors from materials, factors from students. Foreign language teachers are suggested to pay attention with the students reading anxiety and choose appropriate reading materials, reading teaching to help EFL learners reduce their reading anxiety