Viktoria Bere Pengarang Santri E.P. Djahimo, S. Pd., M. App. Ling, Ph.D Dosen Pembimbing 1 Elisna Huan, S. Pd., M.Hum Ketua Penguji Santri E.P. Djahimo, S. Pd., M. App. Ling, Ph.D Penguji 1 Drs. John Bhae, M. Ed Penguji 2

This research is about the factors that affecting speaking anxiety experienced by third-semester students. This research aims to analyze the factors affecting students’ speaking anxiety and to find out the strategies used by the students to overcome their speaking anxiety. The writer has formulated two research questions in this study as follows: (1) What are the factors that affected students speaking anxiety experienced by the third-semester students? (2) What are the factors that affected students speaking anxiety experienced by the third-semester students? this research was been qualitative research. The respondents of this research were thirty students of the third-semester of English Study Program at Nusa Cendana University. The writer distributed a questionnaire and conducted an interview. The writer analyzed the result of the students’ questionnaire and also interviewed with 10 students. The researcher presented data in the form of a narrative description. This study found that from the three major types of speaking anxiety, the most type that is often experienced by the third-semester students is communicative apprehension, followed by test anxiety, and the last is fear of negative evaluation and had the implemented strategy that they used to overcome their problems in speaking. Keywords: speaking, anxiety, strategies