This study deals with the influence of students’ language anxiety in improving English speaking skills. The purpose of this study is to examine: 1) the level of students’ anxiety to practice speaking; 2) the factors that cause students being anxious to practice communication skills using English; 3) and how students deal with these problems. Students who have anxiety problems can affect the level of English language skills, especially speaking. This study is applying qualitative research with the descriptive case study method. This research take place in a senior high school in Sukoharjo that contain three classes with total 97 students. The result showed if the level of speaking anxiety were categorized as moderate each class. The factors that appear are individual, sociocultural, and linguistic. Respondents had problems such as inability to expressing the idea, feel unconfident with their ability, worry having bad result, talking only in certain condition, low energy to attend the class. The class looked so intimidating and the friend weren’t supportive. Some of them feel awkward and afraid of unfavorable things happened. Some respondents complained about the confusing grammar, a lot of unfamiliar vocabularies, and hard pronunciation. The coping strategies that could reduce anxiety are preparing the skill and topic, self-control, self-study outside the school, and add more references to study English.
