Abstract :
This research explains the anxiety of students in speaking English in the second
semester of the mechanical engineering study program at University of Pasir Pengaraian.
The purpose of this study was to describe the factors that make students at the University of
Pasir Pengaraian's Mechanical Engineering program anxious when they speak English in the
second semester. The sample in this study consisted of 22 students in the second semester of
the mechanical engineering study program at University of Pasir Pengaraian.
This study used descriptive qualitative. The instruments used were questionnaires
and interviews. The questionnaire used in this study adopted the final version of the FCLAS
(Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) from Horwitz (1986). The data were analyzed
using a liker scale to determine the factors that cause students' anxiety in speaking English in
the second semester of the mechanical engineering study program at Pasir Pengaraian
University.
The results of this study show that the factors that cause student anxiety in speaking
English are internal factors and external factors. As has been calculated manually data with a
range for scoring from 20 to 100 points. The total respondents in the questionnaire were 22
students. It shows the mean score of students' anxiety levels, where the percentage of the
two factors, namely internal factors, is 51% and external factors are 49% of the highest score
of 100% points and total questions are 33 numbers. The most correspondents are in middle
anxious classification with a median total of 3 points in both factors.