The Correlation of Ethnicities and Students' Speaking Anxiety in Online English Learning

Sri Ningsih, Arum Putri Rahayu, Enkin Asrawijaya, Ita Kusumawati, Tri Rohani, Adiyono

2022

Abstract

Indonesia is a multicultural and multilingual nation that consists of 300 ethnicities and 715 ethnic languages. The modernity of a nation is judged by the mastery of English. Therefore, besides mastering their ethnic and national language, young generations of Indonesia are required to learn English as a foreign language. The purposes of this study are (1) to measure the level of students’ anxiety from Konjo and Java ethnicities, and (2) to explore the influence of students’ ethnicities on their English-speaking anxiety. This study applied a descriptive quantitative method. The participants of this research consisted of 25 students of Konjo ethnicity in Bulukumba of South Sulawesi province and 25 students of Java ethnicity in Magetan of East Java. The data are collected using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) questionnaire to measure students’ anxiety levels. Based on the statistical analysis, it is found that students from Konjo and Java feel the same mostly at a medium level of anxiety in speaking English. Moreover, the results of spearman’s rho test with a final significant score are 0.471 which is higher than the significant value of 0.01. It can be concluded that there is no correlation between ethnicity and the level of students’ anxiety in Speaking English learning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ningsih S., Putri Rahayu A., Asrawijaya E., Kusumawati I., Rohani T. and Adiyono. (2022). The Correlation of Ethnicities and Students' Speaking Anxiety in Online English Learning. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovation in Education - Volume 1: ICoIE 4; ISBN 978-989-758-669-9, SciTePress, pages 402-408. DOI: 10.5220/0012201700003738

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoie 422,
author={Sri Ningsih and Arum Putri Rahayu and Enkin Asrawijaya and Ita Kusumawati and Tri Rohani and Adiyono},
title={The Correlation of Ethnicities and Students' Speaking Anxiety in Online English Learning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovation in Education - Volume 1: ICoIE 4},
year={2022},
pages={402-408},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012201700003738},
isbn={978-989-758-669-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovation in Education - Volume 1: ICoIE 4
TI - The Correlation of Ethnicities and Students' Speaking Anxiety in Online English Learning
SN - 978-989-758-669-9
AU - Ningsih S.
AU - Putri Rahayu A.
AU - Asrawijaya E.
AU - Kusumawati I.
AU - Rohani T.
AU - Adiyono.
PY - 2022
SP - 402
EP - 408
DO - 10.5220/0012201700003738
PB - SciTePress