An Analysis Of Students’ Speaking Anxiety Based On Gender

This research was conducted to find out are there any differences factor that cause speaking anxiety based on gender and what are the strategies that students use in coping with anxiety.This research was conducted in quantitative, the researchers used purposive sampling to select the participants of this research. 60 respondents in fourth semester students of Department of the English Education at Teacher Training Faculty of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University were selected by identifying their answers of Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety questionnaires developed by Horwitz et al. (1986) and questionnaires from Kondo and Ying (2004). The results of this research showed that there was a significant different factor between male and female students in speaking anxiety, Male students agreed that more anxious because of fear of negative evaluation factors meanhwile female students more anxious because of Communication Apprehension factor. In other hand, the most dominant strategies used by males and females students were same, that was preparation strategy.