ISBN 978-602-18907-2-1 109 The 4th UAD TEFL International Conference, UAD Yogyakarta 2017 THE ANALYSIS OF CAUSAL FACTOR ON STUDENT SPEAKING ANXIETY Dedy Subandowo Muhammadiyah University of Metro, Indonesia dedy.subandowo@pbiummetro.ac.id Abstract This article examines the analysis of causal factor on student speaking anxiety. This study is to explain what factors affecting the students speaking anxiety. Moreover, the research data are taken from the second semester students of English Education Study Program, Muhammadiyah University of Metro. This is a descriptive qualitative study and some instruments such as documentation, interview, observation are used in order to collect the data. The data is then analyzed by some steps, like data collection in which writer gathers all of the data that will be used to complete the research. After collecting the data, the writer sorts the data by summarizing and choosing the specific category, displaying the data, verifying the data analysis, and making a conclusion from the finding data. The result of this research shows the students speaking anxiety causal factors in the second semester. Most of the students feel anxious when speaking English in the class. Eventually, some suggestions are discussed in order to help students reduce anxiety and become more confident to speak English in oral language classrooms. Keywords: analysis study, causal factors, speaking anxiety, speaking skill 1. INTRODUCTION English as one of the languages has an important role in this world (Genç & Bada, 2010). It is as one of the international languages in the world (Fang & Baker, 2017). Most of the people in some different countries use English to communicate in some aspects of life such as politics, economics, culture, education, social, etc. Therefore, it has been considered as the way to express the ideas and other feelings of communicative expression such as oral or writing. In this case, the categorization of oral language would be crucial to explore because of regarding the government rules that English has been applied to all levels of education and institution as the curriculum in order to prepare the students to be skillful at using English. Not to mention that university students are also taking into account in building their confidence in speaking English especially for the students of English department (Nunan, 2003). There is an important problem faced by the students in learning English, particularly in speaking part. Some students express their inability and sometimes they show their failure in speaking English. They may be good at learning other skills but when it comes to English, they claim that they feel afraid to speak English (Basic, 2011). Therefore, students’ feeling of anxiety or nervous may impede their language learning and performance abilities, especially when practice speaking English in speaking class (Akkakoson, 2016). 2. LITERATURE REVIEW The study of speaking anxiety was conducted by Zhiash Suleimenova was focusing on foreign language classroom in Kazakhstan (Suleimenova, 2013). The main purpose of the research is to find out whether the EFL learners feel anxious or embarrassed while learning to speak English and what the consequences of students