Husnul Khotimah.2018. The Case Study of Listening Anxiety of The Ninth Grade Students At MTsN 3 Kota Banjarmasin. Thesis English Language Education, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty. Advisor I : Dr. Ridha Fadillah, S.Pd., M.Ed., Advisor II : Afifah Linda Sari, S.S., M.Pd.

Keywords : Students, Listening, Anxiety.

The anxiety that accompanies the Listening activity is difficult to detect, but potentially one of the most debilitating, because in order to interact verbally the
listener must first understand what is being sad. This research describes the Listening Anxiety of the Ninth Grade student’s at MTsN 3 Kota Banjarmasin. This
research was intended to investigate symptoms of Listening anxiety and three components of its anxiety of the Ninth Grade student’s and to find out the solutions
for it.

This research is a case study research, which the data were analyzed qualitatively. The participants in this research were the IX B students. Then ninth students become participants, which took by purposive sampling method. The object of this research was the Listening anxiety made by students. In data collection, the researcher used observation, interview, and documentary
techniques. Then, all of the data that have been collected were analyzed by using case study approach.

The results of this research indicated that there were eight symptoms experienced by students during Listening activity. Stressed, lack of confidence with their answer when Listening activity, doing one’s best to avoid Listening, mind going blank, getting confused and unable to remember what has been heard, panic, feeling hot with cheeks burning or feeling cold and shaking, thoughts becoming jumbled and confused. Based on the eight symptoms, they were divided into three categories they are, communication apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation.

The categories were illustrated by the patterns that were symptoms appear and become anxiety in Listening, from the eight symptoms that had been categorized; the dominant component was the category of test anxiety. Based on the result of the research, the researcher find out suggestions by teachers to students to develop their Listening skill and more relax to enjoy Listening activity. Moreover, to all teachers who teach English were expected to make Listening activity more interesting, and to improve teaching method and strategy in listening activity.