The feeling of anxiety faced by learners is one of the factors that can be said to hinder
learning English. The present project examined the anxiety in learning English as a foreign
language at Al-Azhar 29 Islamic Junior High School, Semarang. This case study collects the
data through direct observation in the class and interviews to recruit seven males and seven
females in every grade with a total of forty-two participants out of nine grades in the academic
year of 2022/2023. In the interview session, the questions asked by the researcher were
adapted from the Foreign Language Class Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), a five-point Likert Scale
of 33 items developed by Horwitz et al (1986). The result showed that the factor that affected
the anxiety of secondary school students in learning English as a foreign language is the
gender factor. There is no significant difference in EFL classrooms according to the age and
grade of the participants. Foreign language class anxiety is an important thing that must be
considered because it determines the target language class.