Students' Strategies To Overcome The Level Of Language Anxiety In Speaking Performance At UPT SMP Negeri 13 Gresik

Khoiriyah, Nurul (2022) Students' Strategies To Overcome The Level Of Language Anxiety In Speaking Performance At UPT SMP Negeri 13 Gresik. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Speaking is a form of speech act which sounds are produced by the speech organ, accompanied by body movement and facial expressions. By mastering speaking skills, students will be able to communicate each other and establish a good interactions. Speaking english is not easy because students need to speak the new language with great confidence. Spoken fluency can show that they have a good knowladge of learning language. Generally , students feel nerveous, insecure, and anxious. This phenomenon is called foreign language anxiety. It can be decribed a worry or anxiety that arises after a learner is expected to behave in a second or foreign language. Anxiety is a negative emotion that can interface a students learning efforts when learning English. This study examined two points, include the factors caused anxiety when speaking performance and how the students’ strategies to overcome the level of language anxiety in speaking performance.
There were two research questions in this research, those were: 1) What factors cause the students’ language anxiety in speaking performance at UPT SMPN 13 Gresik? and 2) What are the students strategies overcome the level of language anxiety in speaking performance at UPT SMPN 13 Gresik?. The objectives of this research to find out the factors caused the students’ anxiety in speaking performance and to find out the students’ strategies to overcome the level of language anxiety in speaking performance. The research applied a qualitative descriptive as research method. It was conducted in UPT SMPN 13 Gresik. The data were gathered by questionaire, observations and interview. While, technique and data source triangulation were used to validate data.
The results of this study indicate that not all levels of language anxiety are experienced by students. It was found out that in the factors caused students anxiety in speaking performance, there are three factors, namely communication apprehension, almost all levels of language anxiety have anxiety in communication apprehension, but on factors such as test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation, only two levels of language anxiety are experienced, namely very anxious and anxious level. While for students' strategies to overcome the level of language anxiety in speaking performance are: 1) Preparation, this strategy is carried out by all students at the level of language anxiety, namely very anxious, anxious, mildly anxious and relaxed level. 2) relaxation, this strategy is carried out by all students at the level of language anxiety, namely at the very anxious, anxious, mildly anxious and relaxed level. 3) positive thinking, this strategy is only carried out by two levels of language anxiety, namely anxious and mildly anxious. 4) peer-seeking, this strategy is carried out by three levels of language anxiety, namely very anxious, anxious and midly anxious.

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