This explorative research aims to investigate the students’ English anxiety and the
existing English learning model used by teachers as the baseline for the study to
develop an effective English learning model. The method used in this research was
a descriptive quantitative survey. The samples were 248 fifteen to nineteen year old
students in second grade Banjarbaru senior high schools, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The results indicated that the students’ English anxiety were at high level,
including the three components of foreign language anxiety: communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation, and test anxiety. In addition, the students
experienced anxious feeling in English classroom and English learning model used
by English teachers were conventional model. It means that the teachers were as the
center of learning.