Therefore, anxiety includes several aspects, such as fear, apprehension, shyness, anger, worry, belief, tension and confidence. In brief, anxiety is nervousness experienced by students in the learning process of foreign language individually. This anxious feeling rises before and during the learning activities and it causes several behavioral tendencies while learning a foreign language. The anxiety often appears in learning foreign languages or second language, because it is considered difficult. The understanding of anxiety is described by Spielberger (1983) in Horwitz, Horwitz& Cope (1986) by stating that“anxiety is the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the automatic nervous system". One of the prominent psychological factors is anxiety in using English personally, the surrounding circumstances and in certain situations in teaching and learning activities. One of affecting factors is the psychological aspect of the students themselves. There are several factors affecting this process. Teaching and learning using English is not as easy as using the mother tongue.
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