The Analysis of The Students’ Writing Anxiety in Their Academic Writing: The Case of University Level Students

Abstract

This research was conducted to examine whether levels and types face by English students at fourth semester influencing a study in writing anxiety. The research problem in this research was “What is the levels of students writing anxiety of the fourth semester of University of Islam Malang in their academic writing” and also “What type of students writing anxiety of the fourth semester of University of Islam Malang in their academic writing”, then the research has found the most levels of anxiety at students fourth semester. In this study, the researcher used quantitative approach with a descriptive quantitative design. The researcher used students at fourth semester of University of Islam Malang. The participants of this study were 35 students which taken by using random sampling which consist of 15 students from writing class A and 20 students from writing class B. The population of this research was 35 students of English students at University of Islam Malang. In this study the researcher used one instrument to collect the data it is the questionnaire. The questionnaire by ESL Writing Anxiety Questionnaire I- Adopted from Second Language Writing Anxiety (SLWAI) by Cheng (2004) used to obtain the levels and the types of writing anxiety. The finding showed that English students had anxiety about writing anxiety. From the results of the questionnaire. The study found that the students fourth semester of University of Islam Malang 24 students (70%) had anxious high level in anxiety, 8 students (20%) moderate level in anxiety, then there are 3 students (10%) had low level in anxiety. The types of writing anxiety is somatic, cognitive, and the last avoidance behavior. The researcher found that the most type writing anxiety is Avoidance behavior and Somatic. Keywords: Writing, Writing Anxiety, Academic Writing