An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety at the Second Student of Vocational High School

Abstract

This study deals with the analysis of Students’ Speaking Anxiety at the Second Student of Vocational High School. The objectives of the study are to find out the the types of the students’ speaking anxiety at the second student of vocational high school and to find out the cause of the students’ speaking anxiety at the second student of vocational high school. This research used the descriptive quantitative method. The descriptive quantitative method is used to describe involving recording analyzed and interpretation the condition that exist. It also known as a method to analyze the work of teachers. The population of the research was the second grade of students in SMK Negeri 9 Medan in academic year 2016/2017. There were twenty classes who consisted of 636 students. Based the statement above, the population was taken just two classes as the sample. The data was collected by giving some questionnaire to the students and some question for the english teacher. The questionnaire consisted of 33 items. In the queastionnaire the students answered some question about anxiety. This is important for collecting data in all types of research methods. The findings show that from the research the most dominant anxiety is Generalized Anxiety Disorder where 28 students (45.16%) suffered this. The second is Social Phobia where 21 students (33.87%) suffered this and the third is Panic Disorder where 13 students (20.97%) suffered this. The cause of the students’ speaking anxiety at the second student of vocational high school is a combination of psychological, educational, and socio-cultural factors, which are interrelated.