STUDENT’S ANXIETY IN LEARNING ARABIC
Keresahan Pelajar Ketika Mempelajari Bahasa Arab
Abstract
Anxiety is a emotional phenomenon that occurs almost on everyone. Anxiety occur in certain situation and condition. Learning a foreign language is one of a condition where the student will feel anxiety. The students who feel anxiety in foreign language learning will procrastinate the task, avoid the speaking activities during learning session, or sitting quietly in the back row. Therefore, this article will discuss about the definition of anxiety generally and foreign language anxiety specifically. This article also discuss about factors that contribute to the foreign lannguage anxiety and the approaches or methods that can be used in order to reduce the level of anxiety that experienced by students during learning session. This study founds that the main factor of foreign language anxiety is related to the students’ low self-esteem. In addition, the teaching methods, language test, and activities that are less effective in the classroom also contributed to students’ anxiety. Furthermore, the method that can be used to reduce the students’ anxiety is to constantly instill the positive attitude, the teachers are sensitive to the anxiety faced by students, being more friendly and varying the teaching methods.
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