Students’ Anxiety in Speaking (A Case Study at SMP N 5 Langsa)

This study discussed the anxiety of students in speaking at SMP N 5 Langsa. The purpose of this research was to find out factors that caused anxieties in learning the skills. The research design was a qualitative case method and the subject was the third-grade students of SMPN 5 Langsa. The instrumens were observation and interview. The result indicated that students have some anxieties in English such as low self-perception, fear of making mistakes, formal classroom environment and presentation in the classroom, and the mental state of students obstructs or disturbs the concentration in speaking English. Moreover, they felt unconfident in speaking, unable to speak English spontaneously before doing a preparation, students had a lack of motivation, passive in learning speaking and feeling over�sensitivity to threats of fear