Survey On Factors Influencing Vocational Students’ Learning Anxiety In Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims at describing the factors of learning anxiety experienced by vocational high school students. The data were collecter from 40 participants. 37 students were male and 3 students were female. This study uses an instrument adapted from Horwitz (1986) which has 3 constructs, such as communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. The data were then analysed by using descriptive analyzed method using SPSS statistics 23. The results showed that several factors cause students to feel anxious when learning English, such as (1) I always feel that the other students speak English better than I do (4), (2) I get nervous when I don't understand every word the English teacher says (4), (3) I feel overwhelmed by the number of rules you have to learn to speak English (4), and (4) I get nervous when the English teacher asks questions which I haven't prepared in advance (4). Then, the results of the level of learning anxiety experienced by vocational high school students, the majority of students experienced a mild level of anxiety. This findings implies that English learning in vocational high school should set the class into more collaborative environments by increasing practice in the classroom.