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STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY IN AN EFL CLASSROOM: GENDER PERSPECTIVE AT SMA NEGERI 2 KENDARI

Journal of Teaching of English · Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019) · pp. 125–136

ISSN
2548-6810
Published
2019-06-09
Publisher
Universitas Halu Oleo
Language
eng

Abstract

The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference of students’ speaking anxiety across gender. This study used survey method. The population was the second grade students of SMAN 2 Kendari in academic years 2017/2018. This study involved 184 students (92 males and 92 females) who were taken from proportionated stratified by random sampling. An instrument employed in this study was a questionnaire of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistic. The result of descriptive analysis showed that students’ speaking anxiety was affected by three factors namely communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation where each factor had a neutral position and majority students had a moderately anxious level on speaking anxiety. The result of the t-test showed that tobserved was -2.007 and ttable was 1.973. It means that ttable was lower than the tobserved. Thus, there was a significant difference of speaking anxiety between male and female students where females were more anxious then male. Keywords: Speaking Anxiety, situation-specific Anxiety, andGender.

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Asrun LioAffiliation unknown3
Mursalim MursalimAffiliation unknown2
Rohmana RohmanaUniversitas Halu Oleo2
Amri TanduklangiUniversitas Halu Oleo1
Nilda Iman SyahraniAffiliation unknown1
Nurwia NurwiaAffiliation unknown1
Rini Darianti HartinaAffiliation unknown1
Aksan SaputraAffiliation unknown1
Siam SiamUniversitas Halu Oleo1
Mardiana PottoAffiliation unknown1
Nurhikmah Dwi AstutiAffiliation unknown1
Hanna HannaUniversitas Halu Oleo1
Young Ervina OcktaviaAffiliation unknown1
Sarni Gita MustikaAffiliation unknown1
Lelly SuhartiniUniversitas Halu Oleo1
Siti Saleha MananAffiliation unknown1
Purna PurnaAffiliation unknown1
Wa SaniAffiliation unknown1

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