An Investigation Into the Cause of Students’ Anxiety in Speech Perfomance at MAN 1 Kota Serang

Abstract

This study aims to find out how fluency anxiety can occur, as well as find out the factors that cause students to experience fluency anxiety when speaking English. The method used is a case study qualitative research method with interview designs, questionnaires and performance tests. Students of class XI IPA 4 are the participants in this study. Data analysis in this study can be divided into three procedures; data compaction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions or verification. Based on the results of the research that has been carried out, it can be concluded that there is anxiety about speaking fluently when doing English speech performance in class XI IPA 4 students at MAN 1 Serang City, namely, students feel afraid to appear in front of many people, there is a lack of language in students in English, then students do not practice their English skills. Then, based on the research that has been done, three factors have been found that cause students to experience speaking anxiety, including social factors including the influence of peers, the influence of schools that have never held seminars on speaking anxiety and the importance of public speaking skills. Next factors that caused students’ speaking anxiety are linguistic factors, including a lack of language in the structure of English, then a lack of language in English pronunciation. Next factors that caused students’ speaking anxiety are individual factors, including the lack of motivation in students to improve their English speaking skills, the lack of desire for students to reduce anxiety in speaking to themselves, the fear of failure when performing is also a factor in students experiencing anxiety.