THE LEVEL OF STUDENTS’S ORAL COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION IN SPEAKING CLASSROOM

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the level of students’ oral communication apprehension. Based on the phenomena found during teaching speaking in the Institutional Talk subject that most of the students were upset while doing speaking practice, the researchers concidered that it was very crusial problem to be solved. The design of this research was a qualitative approach. The populations in this research were the students who engaged in the speaking classroom that consists of 21 students at the first year students of English Department of Universityy PGRI Sumatera Barat at the academic year 2021/2022. In order to find out the level of students’ oral communication apprehension, a set of questionnaires adapted from McCroskey in Wrench et al (2009:57-58), known as The Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) was used by the researcher in this research. The PRCA-24 is the instrument which is most widely used to measure communication apprehension. It is a 24-item scale that measures communication apprehension. It utilizes a 5-point of Likert scales ranging from (1) strongly agree to (5) strongly disagree. It is hoped that the findings of this research become the special concern for future reserachers in the field of oral communication.