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Welcome back to my blog. This is the first blog that I share in the 4^th semester. The  content that I review in 4^th  semester is different from all the review in 3^rd semester. If the last semester I reviewed a book and article, now I am going to review the international journal.

v  Golden question : Why did I choose the journal about Tracing Back The Issue of Speaking Anxiety Among EFL Indonesian Secondary Students : From Possible Causes to Practical Implications compiled by Yogi Saputra Mahmud ?

I choose this journal because as EFL student I feel speaking field is most difficult from other english field and I found it hard to practice or improve my speaking skill. Because of that I want to know about the possible causes of speaking anxiety and the best solution for EFL students that must they do or teacher do during the learning speaking process.

In this opportunity I would like to share you about two components of journal. As we know that  the journal consists of several components such as :

1.      Abstract

2.      Introduction

3.      Theoritical

4.      Research Methodology

5.      Discussion

6.      Conclusion

7.      References

This review discuss about the abstract and introduction. Let’s read it till the end J

v  Golden Question : What are the abstract contents that written by the researcher in this journal?

The abstract tell us about the researcher’s purpose to write the journal and the content that the researcher want to research. The purpose of the journal that I had read is to scrutinize or to find about the possible causes of speaking anxiety for EFL Indonesian Secondary students. Not only scrutinize the possible causes of speaking anxiety, but also find the best solution that must EFL students do or teachers do for improve students’ speaking skill during the learning process and practice.

The researcher classifies the causes of the speaking anxiety Into two major causes
including affective-related and linguistic-related causes. Than based on the result of the research, the best solution for alleviate the speaking anxiety are use the cooperative learning rather than competitive learning and balancing the learning linguistics with practice.

v  Golden Question : What are the introduction contents that written by the researcher in this journal?

Speaking anxiety is the problem for Indonesian EFL learners, because the most of them find  the difficulties in mastering speaking skill. The first problem is most of the teacher in Indonesia just focus on the material rather than practice. the second problem is students’ anxiety, actually the students’ anxiety is related to they psychological condition (personal experience)  or self confidence. In speaking field the confidence students do not have memorizing any vocabulary and understanding about grammar are better than the unconfidence students who have memorizing any vocabulary and understanding about grammar, because speaking is english skill that need the self confidence to practice. The negative impact of speaking anxiety are the students prefer to avoid paticipation in speaking practice beacuse they fear to negative evaluation from their friend and teacher.

That all the review about abstract and introduction from the journal that I read. I hope this review can improve your knowledge about speaking skill. Never give up and continues your struggle in mastering english skill😊