Investigating Student's Anxiety in Public Speaking Class (A Case Study at English Language Education Department of UIN Ar-Raniry)

ABSTRACT

Name : Mahathir Rafsanjani
Reg. No. 140203063
Faculty : Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
Major : Department of English Language Education
Thesis working Title : Investigating Student Anxiety in Public Speaking Class
Main Supervisor : Nidawati, S.Ag. M.Ag
Co-Supervisor : Rahmi Fhonna, S.Pd.I, MA

This thesis is entitled Investigating Student Anxiety in Public Speaking Class. This research aims to investigate the effort of students on reducing anxiety in Public speaking. The researcher used a qualitative method through semi-structured interview to obtain the data. The participants were 10 of the 2017 academic years students as interviewees; they are 5 male and 5 female students. The finding showed that lack of confidence was one of the causes of anxiety among students in public speaking. Second, audience’s perception of the speaker; Last, lack of speaking materials and lack of preparation. The result also showed that the strategies to reduce anxiety caused by lack of vocabulary are by taking a note of the word that they did not understand the meaning and try to memorize it. The strategies to reduce anxious feelings by the audience's perception is increasing their confidence by practicing more and avoiding the audience's eye contact. Last, for strategies to reduce anxious feelings by lack of materials is preparing a good presentation and finding the appropriate examples for the topic.

Keywords: Public Speaking, Anxiety, Strategies