English teacher students’ anxiety in teaching English at micro teaching practice

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Ninggar, Adella Dara (2020) English teacher students’ anxiety in teaching English at micro teaching practice. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

English teacher students should do micro teaching practice to improve their teaching skills. English teacher students must confidence, brave and manage classroom during micro teaching practice. However, some English teacher students faced anxiety during micro teaching practice. But English teacher students could soothe their anxiety with some strategy. Anxiety is a feeling that is in someone when facing something emoional reaction like stress and nervousness. This research aims to investigate English teacher students’ anxiety in doing micro teaching and their reasons they feel anxiety. This research used descriptive qualitative by interviewing and observing four English teacher students’ teaching performance. According to the theory there are four types of anxiety. However there are two types of anxiety the researcher did not found trait anxiety and facilitative anxiety versus debilitative anxiety. English teacher students who taught in junior high school had state anxiety and English teacher students who taught in senior high school had situation specific anxiety. They give different reasons of why they felt anxious, the reasons from English teacher students which teach in junior high school English teacher student did not understand the material, students did not understand the material and students underestimated to the teacher. The reasons from English teacher students which teach in senior high school unpredictable classroom condition and students did not pay attention the teacher. This study highlight that English teacher students should prepare all their needs (material, media, knowledge, esactra) before doing micro teaching. This study also expects the lecturers should be aware to give more supply to minimize English teacher students’ anxiety in doing micro teaching.