DOI:http. Available Online at jurnalunmuhjember.ac.id/index.php/ELLITE ISSN (Print) : 2527-4120 ISSN (Online) : 2528-0066 ELLITE Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching Volume 05, No. 1, May 2020 How to cite (in APA style): Charisma, D. & Nurmalasari, P. (2020). An Investigation of Student Teachers’ Anxiety Related to the Teaching Practicum. English Language, Literature, and Teaching, 5(1), 15-20 doi: 10.32528/ellite. v5i1.3205 An Investigation of Student Teachers’ Anxiety Related to the Teaching Practicum Dila Charisma & Puteri Nurmalasari Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon, Indonesia (dilla.charisma@umc.ac.id) Abstract Tis study aimed at investigating the student teachers’ anxiety related to the teaching practicum as well as the factors that contribute anxiety during teaching practicum, and exploring the student teachers’ strategies in overcoming their anxiety during teaching practicum. In order to answer the research problem, qualitative research with a case study approach was employed in this study. STKIP Invada Cirebon was chosen as the site and English student teachers were the participants of this study who did teaching practicum at SMK RISE Kota Cirebon, while the data were collected through interview and weekly journal. Tis study discovered that student teachers’ anxiety related to the teaching is situation-specifc anxiety, and the factors which contribute to anxiety can be grouped into six categories: being not familiar with the situations in the classroom, being observed by mentor or supervisor, incompetence in teaching, not meeting expectations, less English profciency, and classroom management. Tis study also identifed six categories on how to cope with anxiety; adapting, preparing, building a good relationship with the mentor and the students, boosting self-confdence, developing positive thinking, and keeping calmness and excitement. Te fndings of this study give insight for university supervisor, mentor, and student teachers that anxiety may arise during teaching practicum. Keywords: Student teachers’ anxiety; teaching practicum; cause of anxiety, anxiety strategies. Current English teacher education emphasizes the importance of teaching practicum to improve the quality of English teaching. One of the importance of teaching practicum is give the real experience teaching in the classroom with the real students and student teacher as a teacher. Enginarlar (In Barahmeh, 2016, p. 16) states the dissatisfaction with the quality of English teaching is generally attributed to teacher education programs at universities, and one of these essential programs is the “practicum”, in which fnal- year student teachers observe mentor teachers in real classroom and do practice teaching First Received: 31-03-2020 Final Proof Received: 24-04-2020