Siti Salamah , 2201415003 (2019) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY IN YOUNG LEARNER CLASSROOM THROUGH SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION A Case Study of Grade VII Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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This study is about the analysis of students’ speaking anxiety factors that appears in young learners’ classroom especially the seventh graders through small group discussion. The aim of this study are to list the speaking anxiety factors that appear in young learners’ classroom, to explain how to analyze students’ speaking anxiety in young learners’ classroom through small group discussion, and to explain how small group discussion to eliminate students’ speaking anxiety. The data of this study were taken from questionnaire, interview, and students’ speaking scores. There were 64 students on grade VII at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Semarang. The questionnaire data were analyzed based on Horwitz et al.’s theory of Language Anxiety (1986) which translated into Bahasa Indonesia. The speaking anxiety factors were obtained from the highest five out of twenty five statements and each statements was calculated based on the students’ answer to find out five chosen statements. The analysis of students’ speaking anxiety through small group discussion were analyzed qualitatively based on the students’ interview answer, speaking score, and also anxiety level. The findings show that there were five factors of speaking anxiety on students during English class: 1) less preparation during English class, 2) often feel nervous, 3) the students very feel nervous when the teacher asked questions that they have not prepared before, 3) the students afraid do not understand with what their English teacher said, 4) how English teacher treated the students during English class, and 5) peer-pressure in English speaking. The result of interview analysis demonstrated that small group discussion can help the students to eliminate their anxiety during English class especially in speaking activity. Based on the result, it suggested that the teacher should realize that students’ speaking anxiety might occur in the English class, to overcome the anxiety, the English teacher should manage the class situation and condition to be more relax and fun, the teacher also should use the appropriate method to motivate the students to enhance their English language speaking ability.

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