USING SMARTPHONE VIDEO RECORDER AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE STUDENTS ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

This study aimed to find the students’ strategies in overcoming their anxiety in speaking English. The data was collected from third semester students of English Department who learned Speaking English Subject. This study used descriptive quantitative research design. The instruments used were interview and questionnaire. The interview was distributed to 21 students from class BG3B, based on the result of interview the researcher took 4 students who had not anxious and 17 students had anxious to gave questionnaire. The interview used as got sample. The questionnaire used was Likert’ scale. Based on the result of questionnaire, the students preferred to relexation strategy to overcome their anxiety in speaking English. The percentage of relaxation were 97,5%. The second strategy was preparation there were 93,01%. The third strategy was positive thinking, there were 75,2%. The fourth strategy was peer seeking, there were 63,5%. And the lowest strategy was resignation, there were 34,3%.