Exploring the Source of the Students’ Foreign Language Listening Anxiety

--Teaching listening is full of challenges for both teachers and students. One of the challenges is to face the students who have anxiety. Many studies have proved that anxiety give a negative effect on the learning outcome, especially in listening subjects. Thus, this study was intended to investigate the level of the 2nd-semester students’ anxiety and the sources of listening anxiety in English education department of IKIP-PGRI Pontianak. The result shows that most the students have high-level anxiety which lead to poor listening comprehension outcome. The sources of the students’ listening anxiety are from the material, other than material, but most of the students’ response is from the learner cognitive process.