Students’ anxiety in writing english academic article

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Ariyanti, Dinda Putri (2020) Students’ anxiety in writing english academic article. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Writing is a process to express the ideas without saying or interaction in two and others can understand the meaning of the sign/symbol by the reading it. In the process of make a writing product, some students experienced anxiety with feelings nervous, afraid, and not confident. The aim of this qualitative research is to identify types of writing anxiety faced by students when writing English academic article in sixth semester at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya and to explore their ways to anticipate writing anxiety. The data were collected from questionnaire of Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) and interview to 10 students of English academic article writing class. The results show that avoidance behavior anxiety type is the highest but the most common anxiety type that occurs in writing activity is cognitive anxiety type and students mentioned three anticipation but “asking friends or expert about writing” to be the most choosen way to anticipate. This highlights that peer correction and discussion can be a solution to reduce students anxiety in teaching English writing.