A STUDY OF STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING SEMINAR CLASS ( A Case Study in The Sixth Semester of English Education Department of Bengkulu University)

This research attempted to find out the levels of students’ anxiety
in language teaching seminar class and to find out the most dominant
factor of students’ anxiety in language teaching seminar class. This
research was carried out by employing descriptive quantitative design.
The population of this research was the seventh semester students of
English Education Study Program of Bengkulu University in academic year
2018/2019. The samples of this research were taken by using total
sampling technique, i.e 81 students. The data were collected by
questionnaire consisted of 33 questions related to the anxiety in language
teaching seminar class. The result of this study showed that the level of
students anxiety were anxious. There were three factors that causing
students’ anxiety in speaking; Fear of Negative Evaluation (Mean Score:
2.88), Test Anxiety (Mean Score: 2.74), and Communication anxiety (Mean
Score: 2.61). In conclusion, There were three factors that causing the
students’ anxiety, and the most dominant factors was Fear of Negative
Evaluation.
Keywords: Anxiety, Foreign Language Anxiety, Language Teaching
Seminar