An Anlaysis of Students’ Speaking Ability in Speech and The Level of Their Anxiety at the English Department of UMN Al-Washliyah Medan

Speaking is one the most important language skills that must be mastered by English language learners. However, not all students are able to speak English. Students find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language and students experienced various obstacle.This research aims to find out the students’ speaking ability in speech, the anxiety level of the students, the factor cause students’ anxiety speaking ability in speech, and relationship between speaking ability in speech of the students and the level of their anxiety. Descriptive research was used in this research. The participants of the research were 28 studentsat six semester of English Depatment of Universitas Muslim Nusantara Al-Washliyah Medan in Academic year 2020/2021. The findings show that: (1) the students had good ability in delivering a speech. (2) the most of the students are at “ Anxious” level in delivering a speech. (3) the factors cause students’ anxiety in delivering a speech was a communication apprehension, fear negative evaluation, and test anxiety.(4) there is no correlation between speaking ability in speech and anxtiety (the correlation was very low). Then to test the hypothesis, the researcher compared the values of rxy= 0.076 and rtable= 0.373 (5%) and 0.478 (1%). In short, 0.373 >0.076 <0.478. Meanwhile, the SPSS result has also proven that the Sig. (2 tailed) was 0.701, which was more than 0.05. Dealing with the result, it could be determined that H0 (null hypothesis) was accepted, and Ha (alternative hypothesis) was rejected. It means that there is a negative correlation between speaking ability in speech and the level of their anxiety. Based on the result interview of this research on the relationship between students’ speaking ability and anxiety level indicates that the students with the same level of anxiety may have different speaking category/score.The students with high level of anxiety may not automatically achieve fair speaking category.Through this research, it could be summed up that presence of speaking anxiety could not be avoided but could be minimize from several ways.