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Factors Contributing Students’ Anxiety in Interpersonal
Speaking
Class
Nita Alviani Prastiwi
Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia
Abstract
This present study aims to investigate factors contributing students‟ anxiety in Interpersonal Speaking Class. This study addresses the following questions: (a) What factors contribute to students anxiety during Interpersonal Speaking class? (b) How do anxious students cope with their anxiety? This study used a descriptive method that was taken from the questionnaire and interview. The data came from 5 semi-structured interviews. As case study, the participants consisted of 5 first year students enrolled in Interpersonal Speaking class offered at English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University. The five students were selected as the subject after they responded to a questionnaire. The questionnaire was taken from foreign language classroom anxiety scale FLCAS, developed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986).
The study found two main findings. The first finding is factors contributing students‟ anxiety in Interpersonal Speaking class. The reason why students felt anxious was because their individual presentation. The factors affecting their anxiety when they had individual presentation were, afraid of making mistakes, lack of preparation, limited vocabulary, grammatical errors, lack of self-confidence, friends and embarrassment. The second finding was how anxious students cope with anxiety. Such as, made note, took a deep breath before presentation, and inserted jokes in presentation. Pedagogical implications of the findings will also be addressed at the end of the paper.
