he Analysis of Students’ Writing Anxiety at the Fourth Semester of English Education Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2021/2022
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2023-03-27
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION PROGRAM TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY OF PURWOREJO MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY
Abstract
The aims of this study are to describe students’ writing anxiety in academic
writing class, to describe factors of students’ writing anxiety in academic writing class,
and to describe the solution to overcome students writing anxiety in academic writing
class at the fourth semester of English Education Department of Universitas
Muhammadiyah Purworejo in the academic year of 2021/2022.
This study employed a qualitative case study. The participants were forty-seven
undergraduate students majoring English Education program. The instrument used in
collecting data in this study were questionnaires and interviews. In conducting the
research, the researcher did following the steps: (1) making a list of questionnaire and
interview guide to know the students’ anxiety and factors in writing English, (2)
validating the instrument with expert judgement, (3) giving the instrument, (4)
selecting the students who have high anxiety scores, (5) making interview script to
know how students solved their anxiety in writing English.
The result showed that the students’ writing anxiety belongs to high category
(67.23). The factors of students’ writing anxiety are fear of negative evaluation and
fear of test, low of self-confidence, time pressure, insufficient writing technique,
language difficulties, lack of topical knowledge, lack of experience or insufficient
writing practice, pressure for perfect work, high frequency of assignment. The
solutions to overcome the students’ writing anxiety are asking friends for help,
consulting with lecturers, and reading journal references. It can be concluded that the
students who took academic writing course indicates to have anxiety.