Students' anxiety about speaking English in the classroom is a common problem in the teaching of speaking. From the background above, the author is interested in conducting research entitled Factors Influencing the Students' Anxiety in Speaking English at the Eighth Grade Students of MTs. Based on the background above, the researcher wants to formulate the research question as follows: “What factors cause students' anxiety to speak English in the eighth grade students of MTs.
Based on the research question, the objectives of the research are followed "to find out the factors that cause the students' anxiety to speak English in the eighth grade students of MTs. Based on the research question above, the researcher will focus on the analysis of the external and internal factors of students' anxiety in speaking especially at Class VIII D MTs Naci and Diao's findings relate to students' perceptions of language anxiety in the speaking class and their aims to improve learners' perceptions of language anxiety in speaking classes investigation.
Kashani's discovery of the effect of English language learning anxiety on students' language performance to explore English language learning anxiety. This is the students' speaking performance that practices some phonological and grammatical aspects of the language.
Anxiety
Zeidner states that state anxiety is actual research distinguishing between the individual's actual anxiety experiences in a specific situation. According to Spielberger in Zeidner, state anxiety refers to a transient emotional state of tension and arousal determined by the interaction between a person's traits and the current situation. Spielberger in Zeidner says that trait anxiety refers to a consistent tendency to react with anxiety in different contexts.
Many previous studies stated that preparation becomes one of the main factors that make students anxious (Liu also lists "preparation" in their top lists of how to overcome anxiety). It is therefore clear that a lack of preparation becomes one of the problems that drive students Anxiety during speaking lessons. Feeling uncomfortable when you are stared at by other students while speaking is a source of anxiety often experienced by language learners.
One of the factors students' concerns in speaking is fear of making mistakes. As Liao reported, “I like to speak English, but I am in front of others, I will be nervous and cannot say any words because I am afraid that others will laugh at me if I make some mistakes”(as cited in Liu, 2007:130). In line with this, Baldwin (2011:13) further explains that speaking in front of people is one of the more common phobias faced by students and the feeling of shyness makes their mind go blank or that they will forget what they have to say.
Conceptual Framework
Research Design
Population and Sample 1. Population
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Research Instrument
Procedure of Data Collection
Title: Factors affecting students' anxiety in speaking English in eighth grade students in MT. The purpose of this research was to discover the factors of students' anxiety to speak English, in this case their external and internal factors. The researcher collected the data using the questionnaire sheet as a research instrument which consisted of 17 items.
It showed that in external factors, the number of friends/classmates was a factor that affected students' anxiety about speaking English in the eight grade students of MTs. This means that shyness was the most factor affecting students' anxiety about speaking English in the eight grade students at MTs. Factors influencing student anxiety about speaking English in eighth grade students in MTs.
The researcher obtained the data by using a questionnaire consisting of 20 items as a research instrument. It has been shown that the number of friends/classmates is greater than all other factors for external factors. It means that friends/classmates were the most factors influencing students' anxiety to speak English in MT eighth graders.
This means that shyness was the most factor affecting students' anxiety about speaking English in the eight grade students at MTs. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin, should be expressed for the blessings of Allah SWT for guidance and mercy for the researcher to complete this thesis. The researcher would like to convey her great appreciation and sincere thanks to her consultants Dr.
Muin M. Hum and Nunung Anugrawati, S.Pd., M.Pd for their invaluable clear perspective, expertise and motivation to complete this assignment entitled “Factors Influencing Learner Anxiety in English Speaking in Eighth Grade MTs . The researcher acknowledges that while conducting the research and writing this assignment, many people have contributed their valuable suggestions, guidance, help and advice to complete this assignment. Finally, by reciting Alhamdulillahi Robbil Alamin, the researcher was able to complete her thesis according to the time target, with nothing left or forgotten to do.
Nining Inda Lestari
Investigating the factors that cause language anxiety for ESL/EFL learners in learning speaking skills and the impact it makes on communication in the target language. This chapter consisted of finding the research and discussion containing the data analysis in detail. In this part, the results of the data analysis collected using the questionnaire were presented.
The questionnaire was used to find out the factors that affect students' anxiety in speaking English. Factors that cause students' anxiety to speak English in eighth grade students of MOH. There were two factors causing students' anxiety about speaking English in MT eighth grade students.
The researcher gave questionnaire and analysis of used factor analysis by SPSS 16.0 to know the factors that influence students' anxiety to speak English namely: lack of preparation, limited vocabulary, grammatical errors and friends/classmates. There were five variables that have a strong correlation with external factors, namely lack of preparation, limited vocabulary, grammatical errors and friends or classmates. This shows that there were the different number of factors of students' anxiety in speaking.
The number of students' limited vocabulary was higher than the lack of preparation and the number of students' grammatical errors was the lowest.
The External Factors Students' Anxiety in Speaking English
Based on Table 4.2, the researcher found that there were four factors affecting students' anxiety in speaking English. There were four variables that have a strong correlation with internal factors, namely fear of making mistakes, lack of self-confidence, shyness and lack of motivation. Based on graph 4.2 above, it appears that there were four factors of students' speaking anxiety.
The student shyness score was higher than all the student anxiety factors in speaking.
The Internal Factors Students' Anxiety in Speaking English
- The External Factors Students’ Anxiety in Speaking English
- The Internal Factors Students’ Anxiety in Speaking English
- Conclusion
- Suggestion
The discussion of the research detected the administration of the questionnaire and the analysis of the applied factor analysis through SPSS 16.0 to know the factors that affect the students' anxiety in external and internal factors in speaking English in second grade MT students. It was previously stated that four factors influence students' English speaking anxiety. Based on the results of factor analysis using SPSS 16.0, the researcher found that friends/classmates were the most factors that influenced students' anxiety to speak English, followed by limited vocabulary, next lack of preparation and grammatical errors.
This result is consistent with Cortazzi and Jin (1996) who stated that students' poor vocabulary is one of the reasons why students are silent listeners and not active participants in the oral English class. It means that the lack of preparation was a sufficient factor that affected students' anxiety to speak English. The grammar variable was 0.57 and the number of grammatical errors was lower.
Based on the results of factor analysis with SPSS 16.0, the researcher found that shyness was the most factor that influenced students' anxiety to speak English, followed by motivation, fear of making a mistake, and lack of self-confidence. Shyness is part of the factors influencing students' anxiety in internally focused leadership. This means that shyness had the greatest influence on students' English speaking anxiety.
It means that motivation was the factor that influenced students' fear of speaking English. Fear of making mistakes is one of the factors influencing students' anxiety, which focuses on internal factors. The result of this research variable 'Afraid to make mistakes' (0.68) showed that the number of 'afraid to make mistakes' was the third factor influencing students' anxiety.
This means that fear of making mistakes was a moderating factor influencing students' anxiety to speak English. Lack of self-confidence is part of the factors that influence students' anxiety, which focuses on the internal. The lack of self-confidence variable was lower than all factors with a score of 0.60.
It means that lack of self-confidence is less of a factor that influenced students' English speaking anxiety. It has been shown that the number of friends/classmates is greater than all other factors for external factors.
