The Correlation between Students’ Speaking Anxiety and Their Speaking Ability

Plantika, Senny (2021) The Correlation between Students’ Speaking Anxiety and Their Speaking Ability. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

This research was conducted to find out the type and the level of speaking anxiety among the student in speaking, and also to find the correlation between their speaking anxiety and their speaking ability at second year students of English Department UNP. The correlation research was used in this research. The participants of this study were 20 students of speaking class at English Department UNP in academic year 2018. Questionnaire and interview were used in this research to measure the correlation between the two aspects. The questionnaire was Foreign Language Anxiety Classroom Scale (FLCAS). Fear of negative evaluation was identified as the type of their speaking anxiety, and the level of their speaking anxiety is in medium level. After calculated the two aspects using SPSS 2.0, the result shows that there is a negative correlation between students’ speaking anxiety and their speaking ability. And it is correlated at -0.498 which means the correlation is in a moderate correlation

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