TYPES AND MAIN SOURCES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY POSSESSED BY SECOND AND SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN FACULTY OF LETTERS, JEMBER UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This thesis is focused on the main types of foreign language anxiety that second semester students and sixth semester students have and the main sources of their foreign language anxiety. The purposes of this thesis are, to find out whether the second and sixth semester students feel anxious when learning English in the classroom, to know the types of foreign language anxiety that the second and sixth semester students of English Department in Faculty of Letters, Jember University have, to reveal whether they share the same types of foreign language anxiety, and to find out the sources that make the second and sixth semester students feel anxious. The type of this research is mixed method research that combines quantitative research and qualitative research. To gather the data, this research uses questionnaire as the research strategy. The methods that are used to analyze the questionnaire are descriptive statistical analysis which is used to measure the scale of foreign language anxiety and to find out the types of students’ foreign language anxiety, and content analysis which is used to investigate the main source of students’ foreign language anxiety. The results of this research show that both of second and sixth semester students feel anxious when learning English in the classroom. Although both of them feel anxious when learning English in the classroom, they did not share the same types of foreign language anxiety. The second semester students’ foreign language anxiety types are communication apprehension, test anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and combination of communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation. Meanwhile, sixth semester students’ foreign language anxiety types are communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation, test anxiety, and combination of test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. The sources of their foreign language anxiety were identified as: 1) they feel that their English skill is not good; 2) they rarely practice their English; 3) they have low self-confidence; 4) they are not well-prepared for the class; 5) they are afraid to make mistakes; 6) they lack of vocabulary; 7) they have not been accustomed to English environment.