TEACHER’S STRATEGY FOR OVERCOMING STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN SPEAKING ENGLISH

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Be coming a good speaker has to master including good pronunciation, acceptable intonation, fluency without stuttering, the use of a rich and accurate vocabulary, appropriate grammar, and connecting concepts, called technical skill. The other is called technical factor, including anxiety as the focused of this study. Teachers have a crucial role to play in helping students overcome the anxiety of speaking in English, and they need a strategy of action. This research was mainly conducted to investigate the teacher's strategy for overcoming students' anxiety in speaking English. This research was conducted at SMP Al Wildan Islamic School 1 Gading Serpong, Tangerang District using case study design, and data obtained Tringulation were taken from observations and interviews. The subject in this study are 2 English teachers at SMP Al Wildan Islamic School 1 Gading Serpong, Tangerang District. The results of this study found that the first teacher used English Day, Examination Authority, and Class Rule as the strategy to overcome students' anxiety in speaking English outside the classroom, and used Role Play, Hot Sheet Game, and Presentation as the strategy to overcome students' anxiety in speaking English inside the classroom. Then, the second teacher used English Day, Examination Authority, and website learnhip.com as the strategy to overcome students' anxiety in speaking English outside the classroom, and used Role Play, and Conversation Card Game as the strategy to overcome students' anxiety in speaking English inside the classroom. the results found differences in strategies between the first teacher and the second teacher in overcoming students' anxiety in speaking English, namely the first teacher used a presentation strategy, while the second teacher used the learnhip.com website strategy. Thus, with the teacher's strategy, students' anxiety in speaking English can be overcome both inside and outside the classroom.