The Correlation Between Students' Anxiety (Cognitive, Affective, Behavior) and Speaking Performance (original) (raw)

The aims of this study are to find out the correlation between students' anxiety and their speaking performance and to what extent the students feel anxious about English speaking performance. This research was conducted in Vocational High School, especially in tenth grade with a total of 65 students as participants. A quantitative method was conducted in this research. Questionnaires and students' speaking performance scores were used as instruments. The result indicated there was a negative correlation in medium correlation criteria between students' anxiety and speaking performance. The component that more contributes to the student's speaking performance is the affective component. It can be inferred from the outcome that anxiety can affect their score in speaking performance score, especially the students' affective.