FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY IN EFL SPEAKING CLASSROOMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

This study was intended to investigate the language anxiety level of EFL learnersin the English for Specific Purposes program and to find out the language anxietylevel of EFL learners in the ESP program at University of Muhammadiyah Malangdiffers according to the gender could provide an insight for the teachers in applyingappropriate strategies to cope EFL students’ anxiety This research employedquantitative approach with survey research design. The survey research wasconducted at University of Muhammadiyah Malang specifically at English forSpecific Purposes program (law (Class A-G) and mathematics (Class A-C)department).The total population of this research was 345 students which consistof ten classes, four classes were chosen during the research as the sample. Theinstruments used in this study contain FLCAS (Foreign Language ClassroomAnxiety Scale) questionnaire. This study also aimed at determining the statisticalsignificant difference if any across gender. Based on the result, the t-test revealedno statistical significant difference across gender. Independent sample t-test score,it was observed that t value (.740) was lower than t table (1.66055). Moreover,seeing from sig.(2 tails) of the data shown .100 was higher than .05. In other words,the data showed that there was no significant difference between male and femaleparticipants in the level of foreign language classroom anxiety..