ABSTRACT

Dedeh Kurniasih NIM : D09170020 Students’ Anxiety in Speaking English

at the Eleventh Grade of Vocational High School Bina Insan Mandiri

Banjarsari Lebak in the academic year of 2023/2024

Language is considered to be a system of communicating with other

people using sounds, symbols and words in expressing a meaning, idea or

thought. Speaking is the action of convey information or expressing the

idea and feelings in spoken English. This research explained about

analysis the anxiety students’ speaking in English at the eleventh grade of

Vocational High School Bina Insan Mandiri Lebak in the academic year of

2023/2024. In this research, the researcher used qualitative approach

while the research method will use descriptive qualitative method. The

researcher would carry out the steps of the research, namely the process

of data collection, data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions

and verification. There were three types of student anxiety in speaking

English at the Eleventh Grade of Vocational High School Bina Insan

Mandiri Banjarsari Lebak, they are State Anxiety, when the students feel

panic and may stress when they want to speak in English, Trait Anxiety,

when the students feel nervous when they do not understand the teacher

explanation, and Specific-situation Anxiety, when the students should do

examination about speaking. There were three factors caused the

students anxiety in speaking English at the Eleventh Grade of Vocational

High School Bina Insan Mandiri Banjarsari Lebak, they are communication

apprehension, where the students could not speak English because they

have little experience with English and do not always practice English, test

anxiety, where the students feel anxious because they have to do the test

that the teacher assigns to them, and fear of negative evaluation when the

student are afraid of being judged negatively by their teachers and of being

mocked by their classmates if they make mistakes when speaking English.

Keyword: Anxiety, Speaking, Speaking English