Identifying Student Speaking Anxiety at English Language Education

Abstract

The Speaking skill commonly used as a sole way to interact and communicate with another individual in daily basis or even in more formal basis like academic or even business. But still students still tend to have anxiety when speaking in another language because of several causes and reason. Therefore, this research aims to identify what is the cause and type of the problems of anxiety at English Language Education (ELE) students Universitas Internasional Batam. This study conducted  qualitative method for the research. Peneliti menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. The research instruments were questionnaires. To extend the deeper analysis, this study also conducted an in-dept interview adopted from SLSAS Woodrow (2006) and FLCAS by Horwitz et al. (1986). From the result the researcher can define the types and causes of the ELE students speaking anxiety at Universitas Internasional Batam. Therefore, the learning process at English Language Education needs to be equipped with sufficient linguistic competences, such as grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary.