This research was aimed to explain the factors that affect students' anxiety in speaking English performance and minimizing with learner strategies in grade 8 of SMP IT Robbani Kendal. This study used qualitative method with a case study approach. 15 students who were considered anxious based on the recommendation of their English teacher were selected as participants. The results of the questionnaire with students showed that students experience anxiety and the causative factors are learner beliefs about language learning (frustrated and worried about the correctness of speech), personal and interpersonal (worrying about other people's thinking), instructors' beliefs about language teaching (pressure when the teacher always correct student mistakes), and language testing (feeling others are better than oneself). Strategies that can be used to minimize anxiety are preparation, relaxation, positive thinking, peer seeking, and resignation.