Sources of Anxiety Anxiety

2 Fear of negative social evaluation arises from student’s need to make positive social impression from others. Moreover, students are prone to have a fear of negative evaluation from both teacher as the only fluent speaker in the class and their peers. 3 Test anxiety is a fear of failure about academic evaluation. It means this kind of anxiety occurs in an evaluation situation. Students with test anxiety might have unpleasant experience on their previous tests which makes them fear of failing the upcoming test. These students may also have false belief about foreign language learning. They put unrealistic demand that they should feel that anything than a perfect test is a failure. C. Previous Study In this study the researcher takes three previous studies to support this study. The first study is “The Relationship between anxiety and Oral Practice in Turkey” written by Gonca Subasi in 2010. The objective of the study is to find out the correlation between anxiety and oral practice of turkish. The method of this research is correlational study. The data were gained through questionnaire and interview. The result shows that there is correlation between students and anxiety and their oral performance. They feel more anxious when they are in Foreign language classroom because they perceive that their own speaking ability as poorer than their classmates and teacher. As a result, the anxiety influences their performance quality. 30 The second study is “A study that had been done by Shameem Rafik-Galea and Zuhana Mohd. Zin in 2010. The objective of the study is to investigate the influence of reading anxiety on comprehension performance among low proficiency Malay ESL 30 Gonca Subasi, What Are the Main Sources of Turkish EFL Students’ Anxiety in Oral Practice?, Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Anadolu University, 2010, Pp. 29-49 learner. The data were gained through questionnaire and reading comprehension test. It showed that there was a significant correlation between anxiety and academic reading performance among 218 Malaysia first year students taking English as a second language. It indicated that the higher level of students’ anxiety, the lower their grades. 31 The third study is “Second Language Learning Anxiety and its effect on achievement in the language” by Anupama Chakrabarti and Madhumala Sengupta in 2012. The objective of the study is to find out the effect of anxiety level with achievement. The sample used was 146 students of class IX. The data were gained through questionnaire and students’ English score in the last summative examination. The result shows that there is a consistent negative correlation had been observed between anxiety and test result. 32 Those previous studies above used as references for the resercher in comparing between those relevant studies with the study conducted by the researcher this time. This study was the relationship between students’ anxiety and their achievement in reading comprehension. Some simmilarities and differences appeared between this study and previous study were obviously the method and data collection of studies. The simmilarity of both studies are both of them focus on the correlation between students anxiety and their achievement. Another simmilarity, the researcher used quantitative method namely correlation technique. then, both of the data were collected from questionnaire and test. Morever, there were some differences this study with the previous study regarding the total of 31 Zuhana Mohd. Zin and Shameem Rafik-Galea, Anxiety and Academic performance among Malay ESL learners, Journal of Pan-Asia Pasific Association of Aplied Linguistics, 2010 Pp. 41-58 32 Anupama Chakrabarti and Madhumala Sengupta, Second Language Anxiety and Its Effect on achievement In The Language, Vol 12 : 8 August 2012, p.50-78