THE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS THAT AFFECT STUDENTS ANXIETY IN SPEAKING FOR PRESENTATION CLASS

Keywords: Speaking, Anxiety , Factor, Presentation
This research attemted to find out the factors that affect students anxiety in speaking for
presentation class. This research was carried out by employing descriptive quantitative design.
The population of this research was the fourth semester students of English Education Study
Program of University of Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. The samples of this research
were taken by using random sampling tehcnique. The total sample was 57 students. The data
were collected by questionnaire consisted of 29 questions related to the anxiety. The results of
this study showed that the students mostly had the mildly anxiety. There were three factors that
causing the anxiety of the students in speaking; Fear of Negative Evaluation (Mildly Affected;
Mean Score: 3.12), Communication Apprehension (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 3.09), and
Test Anxiety (Mildly Affected; Mean Score: 2.89). In conclusion, there were three factors that
students speaking anxiety in speaking for presentation class and the most dominant factors is the
Fear of Negative Evaluation .