Abstract :
This study is aimed at investigating students’ speaking anxiety at the tenth
graders of Religion class of MA Mu’allimat NW Pancor in the academic year 2017-
2018. The purposes of the study were: 1) to know what kinds of anxiety the students
experience in speaking English; 2) to find the factors of students’ speaking anxiety;
3) to learn on what proper method and technique to decrease students’ speaking
anxiety. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. The participants were
consisted of 15 students and have been chosen using purposive sampling. Finding
reveals that there are three types of students’ anxiety, which are trait anxiety, state
anxiety and specific-situation anxiety. For the result of questionnaire, the formula that
used was the gained score of respondent divided to total score of five aspects times
100%. The result showed that there were 73.3% agree respond which indicated
students faced English speaking anxiety, 17.62% chose neutral, and the rest chose
disagree option with 9.05% percentage. Beside questionnaire, the observation and
interview result also showed that majority of the students had English speaking
anxiety with various factors.
Key Words: Students’ anxiety, speaking ability, speaking English