Students' Anxiety In The Classroom English Speech( A Case Study In The Academic Speaking Class B Of English Education Department Of Muria Kudus University)
Speech is a speaking activity in public which aims to share the ideas, thought, or information from the presenter to the audience and it can be done in some event such as in the politics oration, in the party, or in the celebration. As an English Education Department students of Muria Kudus University especially for the fourth semester students, they take Academic Speaking class, they should have a good ability in delivering an English speech in the front of audience or in the front of public. The fact show that delivering an English speech is not easy for the students. The purpose of this research is to find out the factors contribute to the anxiety faced by the students and also to find out the types of anxiety faced by the students of academic speaking class B of of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University. This research was qualitative research and the design of this research was case study. The instrument that I used was questionnaire. there were two questionnaire. The first questionnaire was devided into three, it was communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. The second questionnaire was devided into two, it was state anxiety and trait anxiety. The result of this research showed from the students' answer from the questionnaire. From the first questionnaire the calculation showed that the dominant factor of anxiety was communication apprehension the percentage was 45% followed by fear of negative evaluation and the percentage was 34% and then test anxiety and the percentage was 21% It means that most of the students of akademic speaking class b had problem in communicating with other. They were being afraid to speak up in English with others and they were reluctant to participate in conversation or discussion and got involved in interaction with others. The calculation from the second questionnaire showed that the dominant types of anxiety was trait anxiety the percentage was 53% and followed by state anxiety which the percentage was 43% It means that the students of academic speaking class b generally anxious when they were doing public speaking. They were always worry to much over toward something like they were worry if they laugh by other and they were anxious if they would get negative feedback from their lecturer.