Email this article An Exploration of Students Foreign Language Anxiety in English Classroom
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Abstract: An Exploration of Students Foreign Language Anxiety in English Classroom. Objectives: This study aims to investigate students foreign language anxiety in English class: students anxiety levels, students anxiety kinds, and students attitudes toward English class. Methods: This study used a quantitative approach and a survey method with a descriptive research design. Findings: The findings of the study showed 62.5 percent of the students felt anxious in foreign language level sequenced from mildly anxious, anxious, and very anxious. Students dominant kind of foreign language anxiety was fear of negative evaluation. Finally, more than half of the students had negative attitudes toward English class. Meanwhile, the rest of the students showed positive attitude. Conclusion: In conclusion, most of the students feel anxious in English class. They mostly experience anxiety due to the negative evaluation, and their attitudes toward English class could not completely determine their foreign language anxiety level.
Keywords: foreign language anxiety, English classroom, students attitudes
Abstrak: Eksplorasi Kecemasan Bahasa Asing Siswa di Kelas Bahasa Inggris. Tujuan: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi kecemasan bahasa asing siswa di kelas bahasa Inggris. Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan metode survei dengan desain penelitian deskriptif. Temuan: Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa 62,5 persen siswa merasa cemas dalam tingkat bahasa asing yang diurutkan dari agak cemas, cemas, dan sangat cemas. Jenis kecemasan belajar bahasa asing siswa yang dominan adalah ketakutan akan evaluasi negatif. Akhirnya, lebih dari separuh siswa memiliki sikap negatif terhadap kelas bahasa Inggris. Sementara itu, siswa lainnya menunjukkan sikap positif. Kesimpulan: Kesimpulannya, sebagian besar siswa merasa cemas di kelas bahasa Inggris. Mereka sebagian besar mengalami kecemasan karena takut akan penilaian negatif, dan sikap mereka terhadap kelas bahasa Inggris tidak dapat sepenuhnya menentukan tingkat kecemasan bahasa asing mereka.
Kata kunci: kecemasan bahasa asing, kelas bahasa Inggris, sikap siswa.
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