OFFY ADRIANO BAHAN Pengarang SANTRI EMILIN PINGSABOI DJAHIMO Dosen Pembimbing 1 SELFIANA P MBADI Dosen Pembimbing 2 Yanpitherzon Liunokas. S. Pd., M. Hum Penguji 2 SELFIANA P MBADI Penguji 1 Santri E.P. Djahimo, S. Pd., M. App. Ling, Ph.D Ketua Penguji

This research is about the factors that contribute to students’ speaking anxiety in young learners classroom through individual presentation. This research aims to analyze the factors that contribute to students’ speaking anxiety, the most dominant factor in young learners speaking anxiety and to find out the strategies used by the students to overcome their speaking anxiety. The writer has formulated three research questions in this study as follows: (1) What are the factors that contribute to students’ anxiety to speak English in individual presentation? (2) What is the most dominant factor in young learners’ anxiety in English individual presentation? (3) How do students overcome their anxiety in speaking English? this research was been qualitative descriptive research. The research started from 10-20 September 2023. The respondents of this research were twenty students in Extraordinary class of Hand Fortuna English Course. The writer conducted an observation and an in-depth interview. The writer analyzed the result of the students’ observation checklist and also interviewed with 10 students. The researcher presented data in the form of a narrative description. The result shows that there were several factors that contribute to their speaking anxiety like; shyness, keeping silent, avoiding eye contact, limited vocabulary, inaccurate grammar, lack of fluency, imperfect pronunciation, feeling inferior, fear of expressing certain views, diminishing confidence, dominance of hesitation, shoulders down, standing down and feet inwards and arms in front of the body. Furthermore the most dominant factor in young learners anxiety to speak English was imperfect pronunciation. Then, in overcome their anxiety in English individual presentation, each of the students has their own strategy like; Prepared well, take a deep breath, inhale and exhale, try to put focus only on one person, try to think, memorize and wrote the main points, and pray and practice. Keywords: Speaking, Anxiety, Presentation, Strategies