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CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE LEARNING

ANXIETY AND THEIR SCORES IN SPEAKING CLASS

Savira Mayasari

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to find out whether there was any correlation between students’ language learning anxiety and their scores in speaking class. The participants of this research were 70 students of English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University who were taking Speaking course. The students were asked to fill the questionnaires about speaking anxiety. The questionnaire was adopted from Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) developed by Horwitz (1986).The data of the research were also taken from the students’ final scores in the speaking course. The result of the study shows that there was no correlation between students’ language learning anxiety and their scores in speaking class.