Factors of Students’ Anxiety in Speaking in Basic Speaking Class

Abstract

This study was conducted to find out the factors that contribute to EFL students’ anxiety by implementing the descriptive-qualitative method. The subjects were three classes of Basic Speaking Course of English Language Education Study Program in the academic year 2018/2019. The data was collected through questionnaires, observation, and interviews. The result showed several factors that contribute to EFL students’ language anxiety in the three of Basic Speaking Class. They are frightened of making mistakes, frightened of negative evaluation, kinds of tasks, deficiency of confidence, deficiency of speaking practice, and self-perception. The anxiety occurred in forms of having quite many pauses, going blank, making unnecessary body movements, playing with objects, and avoiding eye contact.