STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING SPEAKING AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

Speaking anxiety has become a common problem on language education process. Students tend to be anxious when there are several factors that urge students from inside and outside. Furthermore, speaking anxiety also have three different kinds, namely communication apprehension, test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. This analysed study is aimed to find the dominant kinds and causes of speaking anxiety that faced by students mostly. This research use two method which are questionnaire and interview. 50 students of English Language Education Department in University of Muhammadiyah Malang who are still learning speaking involved as the sample in searching the kinds of students speaking anxiety through FLCAS questionnaire. The result shows that most of students assume of classmates’ have better ability in learning speaking which concern to fear of negative evaluation. It means that the students are still shackled by low of self-esteem. Regarding to the causes of speaking anxiety, the author interviews six students to find the most factors that hinder students in speaking performance. The causes consist two kinds namely internal causes and external causes. Internal causes which have significant effect for students’ speaking anxiety are lack of self-confidence, afraid of making mistakes, and bad pronunciation. While, external factors that massively distribute students to be anxious in speaking are audiences’ intimidation, low of vocabulary understanding, and the classmates’ mockery