Abstract :
The purpose of the research was to find out the factors and the types of
students? anxiety in speaking at second semester students of English study
program at University of Pasir Pengaraian.
This research was design a descriptive qualitative research and instrument
that the researcher used in collecting the data is questionnaire. There were two
kind of questionnaire used in this research. They were open-ended questionnaire,
and close-ended questionnaire.
The finding result of the research showed, there were 13 students classified
into state anxiety, and 2 students classified into trait anxiety. So the most of
second semester students were classified into state anxiety. This result was taken
from open-ended questionnaire.
From the close-ended questionnaire showed, most of students at second
semester of English Study Program at University of Pasir Pengaraian were feel
anxious when speaking English. Some of the reasons were, they were worry about
making mistakes, lack of vocabularies, afraid if other students will laugh to them.