Non-English major students’ strategies to reduce anxiety towards English group presentations

There were several factors that affected student anxiety, namely internal factors which covered fear of failure, fear of criticism, conflicting emotion, speech anxiety, negative experience, fear of losing the thread of material, fear of being stopped, and negative thinking; and external factors which covered condition of presentation room, failing to practice, gender, and physical factor. Strategies that could be applied by participants to cope their anxiety in delivering English presentation were to keep thinking positively toward the audience, the speech, and their self as a speaker, to make good preparation, to rehearse, to keep selfconfidence, and to do relaxation.