The Second Semester Students’ Language Speaking Anxiety at Teacher Training and Education Faculty Pematangsiantar

Abstract

This research aims to find out what causes and the most dominant cause of the Speaking English anxiety of the second semester students at Teacher Training and Education Faculty Pematangsiantar. The writer uses some relevant theories, such as:Alwasilah(2000), Concklin(1912), Davidoff(1981), and Larson(2007). The instrument used by the writer is a video recorder. The data shows that there are five factors cause of their speaking anxiety based on communication apprehension, such as: low intellectual skill (5,48%), low speech skill (20,54%), communication anxiety (44,52%), low social esteem (11,64%), and ethnic/cultural divergence in communication norms (2,54%).It can be concluded that the second semester students‟ most dominant cause of anxiety in their conversation is communication anxiety. Therefore, the lecturers are hoped to build a more supportive and friendly environment without being too tense in teaching their students.