AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY AN THE STRATEGY TO REDUCE THE PROBLEM USING QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE AND CORELATIONAL METHOD

Najabatul Arifah Munawwarah, Nuse Aliyah Rahmati, Ika Hidayanti

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Abstract: This study aims to investigate the level of speaking anxiety, examine the strategies they use to reduce that anxiety, and examine correlation between the two variables. The subject of this research is third-semester students who joined the public speaking class of the English Department at the University of Islam Malang, consisting of 30 students. The research used a quantitative, descriptive, and correlational design. The data were collected using FLCAS questionnaires by Horwitz (1986) and the Strategy questionnaires by Kondo and Ying-Ling (2004). The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS v.24 with Pearson Product Moment to determine the correlation between variables. The researcher found that students experience a medium level of speaking anxiety (M=3.11), with fear of negative evaluation (M=3.23) being the most prominent factor. Despite their anxiety, relaxation (M=4.12) was the most frequently used. Overall is classified as high-level with a score (M=3.91). In addition, this research found that there is no statistically significant correlation. This can be seen from the results with a sig (2-tailed) p 0.108, p>0.05. It can be concluded that the null hypothesis (H0) is accepted, and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is rejected. This implies that the use of strategies has a small impact on reducing students’ speaking anxiety.

Keywords: speaking, anxiety, reducing strategies, correlation analysis


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