Cakrawala Bahasa
Vol 12, No 1 (2023): EDISI MEI, 2023

STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

Andriani Abd. Rahman (Universitas Khairun)
Roswita M. Aboe (Universitas Khairun)
Naniek Jusnita (Universitas Khairun)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Aug 2023

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the factors contribute students’ anxiety in leaning English and their strategies to reduce the anxiety. This research used qualitative descriptive method. The subject of the research were 40 students of the second semester of the English Language Education study Program Khairun University. The data were collected by using questionnaire and interview. The result of this research show that most of the students are at “Anxious” level students. There are 18 (45%) students who experience “Anxious” level, 10 (25%) students are in “Mildly Anxious” level, 9 (22.5%) students are in “Very anxious’ level, 2 (5%) students are in “very relaxed”, an the last 1 (2.5%) students are in “relaxed” level. Furthermore, there were three factors can cause anxiety based on FLCAS, which included communication apprehension (CA), test anxiety, and fear of negative evolution and there were five strategies that the students can use to minimize their anxiety which included preparation, relaxion, positive thingking, peer seeking, resignation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

cakrawala

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Subject

Arts Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Cakrawala Bahasa is a high quality open access peer reviewed research journal that is published by English Language Education Study, FKIP of Universitas Khairun. Cakrawala Bahasa is providing a platform that welcomes and acknowledges high quality empirical original research papers about education ...