Describing The Students’ Voice Related To Anxiety Experience In Indonesian Junior High School Students As English Foreign Language Through Photovoice Method

Abstract

This research focuses on describing the students’ voice related to their anxiety experience in Indonesian Junior High School by using Photovoice Method. The study aims to describe the language anxiety problem that appears on Junior High School Students by reviewing students’ voice in photovoice instrument. The participants were the students studying at a secondary state school in Sleman, Yogyakarta. The SHOWED photovoice instrument which is populared by Wang & Burries on 1997 became the data collection technique to describe the types of language anxiety in Indonesian Junior High School students when communicating in English. Thematic Analysis was familiared by Braun & Clarke on 2006 and was applied to gain the result of interpretation and assumption from participants by giving voices from the pictures of photovoice that were taken by students selves in photovoice instrument distributed. The finding of the study is divided into two general categories, the first is the participants’ profile and the theme that emerged in data analysis. The two participants selected in this study had similar an anxiety conditions when communicating or speaking English in the classroom. The finding also relates on the result of students’ voice in instrument photovoice that distributed. The theme was described in this study show the visualization of English anxiety such as the need self – initiative and social support in learning English process. The two themes were found was the findings and discussion result in this study.