Students' Speaking Anxiety During Online Learning: Causes and Overcoming Strategies
(1) Universitas Negeri Makassar
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Anxiety has been considered as one of the obstacles in learning English and a common issue in the EFL context. In speaking, it also debilitates the opportunity of English Foreign Language (EFL) students to speak English. This study was designed to reveal the causal factors of the students’ speaking anxiety and strategies to overcome them during online learning. Narrative inquiry approach as the part of qualitative research was employed through interview as the instrument. The participants were four students at MAN Insan Cendekia Gowa whom selected through purposive sampling. The result of this study establishes two main findings. Firstly, the causal factors of students' speaking anxiety during online learning which are divided into internal and external factor. The internal factor causes by lack of confidence, shyness, fear of making mistake, and feeling insecure. Then, the external factor causes by lack of preparation, limited vocabulary, friends or classmates, embarrassment, teacher characteristic. In the causal factors, external factors are indicated as the most dominant causes of students' speaking. Secondly, strategies used by the students to overcome their speaking anxiety, they are preparation (lecture note), peer seeking, keeping silent or calm, speaking themselves at home, turning the camera off, using ‘google translator’, limiting speaking duration.
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