The Level of Male and Female Students on Situation-Specific Anxiety in EFL Speaking Class

Abstract

Situation-specific anxiety has an attenuate effect toward students’ speaking in EFL classroom. This study investigates the situation-specific anxiety level of male and female students. The researcher conducted this study at SMAN 6 Pinrang, in academic year of 2019/2020. There were 32 eleventh grade students as the subjects of this study, consisted of 11 male and 21 female students selected by using cluster sampling and the data were analyzed by using SPSS version 22. The result showed that situation-specific anxiety levels of male and female students are varied (low, moderate, and high). Most of male students had low anxiety level; most of female students had moderate anxiety level. In addition, there was no statistically significant difference found regard to students’ gender and their level of anxiety. The finding of this study can be a reflection for the teacher in treating the students with anxiety based on their level.