A STUDY ON WRITING ANXIETY OF THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENT AT ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FKIP UR

Abstract

Abstract: The objective of this research is to find out writing anxiety of the
second semester students’ at English study program of FKIP UR. The design of
this research is quantitative method. The participants of this study were 50
students of class B. The researcher chose the sample randomly. The researcher
uses two kinds of questionnaires as the research instruments. The first
questionnaire is adapted from Stanley (2017), while the second questionnaire was
adapted from Rezaei & Jafari (2014). Analysis of data from this study was applied
by using a likert scale. The result from questionnaire showed that students know
about types and causes of their writing anxiety. Furthermore, between three types
of writing anxiety and from the results of students more refers to Cognitive
Anxiety. The result percentage of the student’s response toward Cognitive anxiety
with a number of 24 students answered “No strong feelings” (6%). The
percentage of the students’ responses to insufficient writing practice or 28
students answered “uncertain” (54%). Besides that, they also get some benefits
from knowing the types and causes writing anxiety, such it makes them to learn
more and prepare themselves before writing. So, they become confidence to write,
without having the anxious feeling.
Key Words : Writing Anxiety, Types, Causes of writing anxiety