Abstract
The study aimed to determine the students’ strategies in overcoming fear of speaking English as a second language and the causes of their fear in speaking in speaking the English language. The study used descriptive-quantitative research design. It is descriptive because it described the students’ strategies in overcoming fear of speaking the English language. This is also quantitative for it used survey questionnaires to gather the needed data. In order to answer the objectives of the study, the researchers made a questionnaire to gather pertinent data. The researchers used stratified random sampling. A simple-random sampling technique is obtained to determine the number of respondents. Out of 172 third-year Education students, the researchers chose randomly 10 students for each major or program for a total of 68 Education students from Notre Dame of Midsayap College. In this study, students have fear in speaking English as a second language and have identified their strategies in overcoming fear of speaking English Language. Findings revealed that students lack of confidence when speaking using English Language. Moreover, most students believed that evaluating how they speak would help them overcome their fear in speaking to themselves and monitoring their errors and progress as a whole.
