The Level of Students’ Anxiety in Speech at Universitas Muslim Nusantara Al- Washliyah Medan

Abstract

The objective of the studies is to analyze of anxiety levels the students at sixth semester of English Department of Muslim Nusantara University in academic year 2020/2021. This research used a descriptive quantitative research design. The collected data were described and presented through a simple statistical formula in a descriptive explanation. The subject of the research was twenty-five randomly selected students from the English Department. The level of students’ anxiety is rated by the FLAS (the Foreign Language Anxiety Scale) through a speaking test, which they needed to deliver their speech. Then, a questionnaire in this studies was adapted from the FLAS ( The Foreign Language Anxiety Scale) proposed by Horwitzh. The Foreign Language of Anxiety Scale (FLAS) contained 33 statements devide into three categories namely apprehension of communication, test of anxiety, and afraid of a bad assessment. This research found that 9,2% of the students got very anxious level, 115,3% of the students were at anxious level, and 98,2 % of them were categorized as middle anxious. For the result, it is found that there was not any participant in the level of relaxed and very relaxed. This research concluded that most of the students were having speech anxiety at the anxious level.