A thesis on Students Language Anxiety in English Lesson and Students Expectation to Cope with the Language Anxiety: A Study at the First Year Students of SMA 6 Semarang By: Elfira Fibriani Student Number: 98.80.0024 Approved by: Mrs. Heny Hartono, SS, M.pd Major Sponsor Mrs. Drs. Antonius Suratno, MA Co-Sponsor ii
A Thesis defended in front of the Board of Examiners on 2006 and declared acceptable Board of Examiners Chairperson: Secretary: Member: Semarang, 2006 Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University Dean, iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The writer is grateful of those who have been involved in bringing this thesis to completion. First of all, the greatest thank to God the Almighty. The deepest thank to Heny Hartono SS, M.Pd, the major sponsor of the thesis who has given her idea, time and support to guide and supervise the whole process of the thesis; to Drs. Antonius Suratno, MA, the co-sponsor for the ideas, time, correction and support. The writer also grateful to the first students of SMA 6 Semarang who have given their time to be the participants of this study. The deepest thanks to the writer s parents for the support either financial and encouragement. Tremendous thank is also directed to my best friends Anna Anggrahini, Betty Marini and Dessy Dwi R. Last but not least, the writer also thanks to people who can not be mentioned here individually, who have supported this thesis to completion. iv
TABLE OF CONTENT Page of title... i Page of approval... ii Board of Examiners... iii Acknowledgement... iv Table of Content... v Abstract... vi Abstrak... vii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study... 1 1.2 Scope of the Study... 2 1.3 Problem Formulation... 3 1.4 Objective of the Study... 3 1.5 Significance of the Study... 3 1.6 Definition of Term... 4 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1.1 Language Anxiety... 5 1.2 Students Expectation to the Teacher and Students Strategy to Cope with Their Language Anxiety... 11 v
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Method of Data Collection... 15 3.1.1 Participants... 15 3.1.2 Instrument... 16 3.1.3 Procedures... 19 3.2 Data Analysis... 23 CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 4.1 The Level of Students Language Anxiety... 25 4.2 The Situation When Students Face Language Anxiety... 27 4.3 Students Expectation and Students Strategy to Cope with Language Anxiety... 30 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion... 36 5.2 Suggestion... 38 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 39 APPENDIX vi
ABSTRACT As the International language, English plays the important role as the means of communication. Because of this reason, many students want to prepare it by learning English seriously since they are in the high school. Although they are motivated to learn English, they sometimes face language anxiety. From this background, the researcher is interested in researching the language anxiety they faced. This study is based on three researcher instruments. They are: Anxiety scale, interview, and observation. To analyze the data, the researcher uses descriptive statistics. The result of the study shows that the students language anxiety level under this study is high. It is caused by several problems, mainly because they can not catch the material in English easily. The students expect that their teacher will give speaking and presentation assignments long beforehand. The students also need to have good preparation in learning English, especially before they presentation. vii
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