@phdthesis{eprintsunpak9282, school = {Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan}, author = {APRIANI RIA}, title = {STUDENTS? ANXIETY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING}, year = {2020}, month = {June}, url = {http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9282/}, abstract = {BSTRACT Public speaking is a place to help students enhance their speaking skill, therefore students are facing problems especially in speaking skills as they are lacking of confidence because of public speaking anxiety. This study aims to investigate the factors and level of students? anxiety on public speaking. The research is conducted to the fifth grade students English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences of Pakuan University. The researcher uses qualitative approach and descriptive method is applied to describe factors of students? anxiety in public speaking. The data are gained by distributing questionnaire and interviewing the students and the lecturer. The result shows that the fifth semester students of English Education Study Program of Pakuan University were in the moderate level of public speaking anxiety. Among the three types of speaking anxiety such as communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation and test anxiety, the dominant type of speaking anxiety was test anxiety.} }