A Survey Of EFL Vocational Students' Speaking Anxiety In Online Classes

Abstract

This research is concerned with the anxiety of speaking English in online classes in Vocational High Schools. This study aims to determine the level of anxiety experienced by vocational high school students and to find the factors that influence students' speaking anxiety. This research uses survey research. The participants were 32 high school students in Yogyakarta. Data collection was carried out using the FLSA questionnaire which was modified by Oztürk & Gürbüz (2014). Data were analyzed using SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The results of this study found that students have a high level of speaking anxiety, accompanied by four factors that tend to influence students' speaking anxiety levels in online classes, namely (1) When students feel nervous when speaking English with native speakers (item number 7 with a mean of 3.5 and standard deviation 0.7), (2) When students feel insecure when they speak English in class (item number 9 with mean 3.5 and standard deviation 0.7), (3) When students always feel that other students speak English better than they do (item number 12 with mean 2.5 and standard deviation 0.7), and (4) When students feel self-conscious about speaking English in front of other students (item number 13 with mean 2 and standard deviation 0).