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An Analysis Of The Writing Anxiety Of The Fourth Semester Students Of English Study Program Fkip Universitas Riau In Writing Essays

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This research is aimed to find out the writing process which makes the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau feel anxious in writing essays. This is a descriptive quantitative research conducted by survey design. The population of this research was 107 of the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau and all of it was appointed as the sample. The data were collected through a questionnaire containing 24 close-ended statements. The questionnaire was adapted from the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) designed by Cheng (2004) and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) designed by Rezaei and Jafari (2014). The result of data analysis showed that the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau felt anxious in the outlining and the drafting process of essay writing, while they felt neutral in the pre-writing and the polishing process. Meanwhile, the levels of students’ anxiety in writing were: high anxiety (50.46%), moderate anxiety (44.85%), and low anxiety (4.67%). From the calculation of the mean, it showed that the Drafting process was the highest mean (20.64) among the other processes such as the Outlining (18.93), Polishing (17.74), and the lowest was Pre-writing (17.50). It indicated that the drafting process was the process that made the students feel highly anxious in writing essays. The factors that contributed to that were: linguistic problems (18.02%), time pressure (17.75%), lack of topical knowledge (16.80%), and lack of vocabulary mastery (16.66%). Furthermore, it is recommended that students need to find out their own factors contribute to their writing anxiety and try to find the best way to cope with their anxiety. Students also need to do more practice in English essays writing, especially in their problems that can make them feel anxious and discuss the problems with the lecturer. In line with that, the lecturer should create a comfortable situation in the Writing class to make the students more relaxed in expressing ideas through writing and the lecturer also needs to pay more attention to students’ problems of writing essays that can lead them to anxiety.
Key words: Writing, Anxiety, Writing Anxiety, Writing Essays

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No. Panggil

05 05. 120 (0026)

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Pekanbaru : Universitas Riau - FKIP – Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris., 2020

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xii, 80 hlm,; ill.: 29 cm

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Indonesia

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05 05. 120 (0026)

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PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS

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