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suit the need. This research focused on the language anxiety, in which the statements provided in the FLCAS were negative statement and positive statements. Each
column was different in scale which the low scale represents positive answer and the high scale represents negative answer.
Table 3.2 The Total Score for Each Statement in FLCAS
Statement Scoring
Strongly Disagree Disagree
Agree Strongly Agree
Negative 1
2 3
4 Positive
4 3
2 1
2. Interview
The interview was done to find the detail information about Hot Seat game implementation. According to Gall, Gall, and Borg, a survey review is to supplement
data that have been collected from the questionnaires where in dept-interviewing cannot be carried out for all participants 2007: p.244. The researcher wanted to find
out how Hot Seat game was implemented by interviewing directly to the lecturers of Critical Listening and Speaking II class.
Here is the guideline of the interview: 1. Have all participants experienced Hot Seat activity in speaking class at
previous semester? 2. Did participants in Hot Seat game share information about something in front
of the class? 3. Did participants in Hot Seat game share information about something in a
small group? 4. Was the topic the recent issue and chosen by the lecturer?
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5. Was the topic participant’s interest and chosen by themselves? 6. Did the participant do the Hot Seat in the class in the following week after
the lecturer pointed them or in impromptu way? 7. When was the Hot Seat activity implemented? Was it at the beginning,
middle or the end of meeting? 8. Did the audiences lecturer and other participants give the feedback after a
participant did the Hot Seat? 9. What kind of feedback was given to participant? Was it in the form of
question and answer or just simply evaluation from the lecturer?
E. Data Gathering Technique
The data were gathered from the questionnaires which were distributed in four classes. Firstly, the researcher made sure that all participants had experienced Hot
Seat in speaking classes at the previous semesters by asking the participants beforehand. The perception of students was the main key of this research, which is
why an experience is important. As Braun and Linder 1975 said that “Expectation and previous experience constantly interact with one another to influence our
perception of sensory events” p. 308. In learning English speaking, the students definitely had the expectations which had to be accomplished. From the expectation
and the experience that they got from the use of Hot Seat game in speaking class as the activity, they could explain how they felt in which the presence of speaking
anxiety would be seen. The researcher distributed the questionnaires a day after getting the
permission from the lecturers who teach Critical Listening and Speaking II as the
