Online learning activities as strategy to reduce students Anxiety in learning English

This study aimed to invlation between online learning activity and their anxiety when they learn English as foreign language. This study utilized qualitative methods research design to examine the corelation between students anxiety, such as nervous, shy, stress, etc when they learn english as foreign language and their activity in online or offline classroom. this study conducted by using quistionnaire and interview. Even English learners’ anxiety level has been explored in a number of studies, few of them have focused on online learning activity. Most of students anxiety are caused they lack to deal with other people, shy, afraid of making mistake, nervous, etc. which only can occur when they learn English as a group, face to face. Therefore this study aimed to investigate the correlation between online learning activity and their anxiety when they learn English as foreign language. The finding proved that all of samples experience nervous while learning English in class. Half of them are also feel worried because of the learning process or the result of learning process. While 28.9% of them feel fear when learning English in the class. Based on the finding of the second research problem, it indicating that 46% of students agree that online learning activities have affect on their language anxiety. In other hand, 40% from the students think that online learning activity cannot help overcome their anxiety when they have to face English as foreign language. Online learning can decrease and even eliminate their anxiety in learning English, facilitate interaction with teachers, make them more confident in exploring their opinion because they can argue without putting the original name, but on the contrary, it can also increase student anxiety due to difficulties accessing online learning device or tools.