Anxiety is a series of mind and body reactions that is experiences by every people. It is state of feeling nervous or worried that something bad is going happen. In teaching and learning process in English department of IAIN Kediri, students who speak english front of others feel anxious. The focus of this study is to describe the levels of speaking anxiety and major cause of speaking anxiety in public speaking class by using Hortwiz theory. This study use descriptive qualitative research design. The subject of this study is the fourth semester of English Department of IAIN Kediri, especially in class A, C and E of Public speaking class. The researcher use questionnaire, developed by Horwitz et al. (1986). It consists of 29 items with 5 point Likert-Scale. The finding revealed that most of the students are at “Midly Anxious” and “anxious” level with no “Relaxed” and “Very Anxious” students. There are 46 (56%) students who have “Midly Anxious” level, and only 36 (44%) students who experience “Anxious” level. The researcher found four causes of students speaking anxiety; they are : communicative appehention (31% ), test anxiety (20%), fear of negative evaluation (24%) and anxiety of englishh classes (25%). The major cause of students’ speaking anxiety is commmunicative apprehention which has highest percentage (31%). The researcher choose the major cause based on the highest percentage of all the causes.

Belum ada author yang ditambahkan.