I Feel Anxious When Communicating: Questioning Students’ Learning Readiness

Abstract

When learning process occurs, the educators expect students’ fully participation.
However, learners experience various obstacles in their participation efforts, such
as feelings of anxiety during presentations and discussions. This study aims to
investigate students’ anxiety predictors when doing communication during the
dynamic learning. There are 2 males and 2 female participants (4 participants)
involved. Their anxiety problems in communication will be explored using
qualitative approach. In order to obtain data on factors triggering participants’
anxiety, researchers used participation-observation techniques on each of
participant’s activity and behavior in the classroom and conducted in-depth
interviews to reveal what experiences contributing to participants’ anxiety. The
results found that factors that cause the participants to feel anxious when
communicating are: 1) Limited mastery of the material, 2) Ignoring the activity of
self expression in the learning, 3) Lack of confidence, 4) Being trapped in
traumatic sense, and 5) Crisis of appreciation toward learning effort from the peers.
Keywords: [Anxiety; communicating; learning readiness]