Jannah, Nur Ngarifatul (2025) An Analysis of Students' Writing Anxiety and Its Influencing Factors in English Learning at SMP Islam Al-Ikhlas Karasan Magetan. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.
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Jannah, Nur Ngarifatul. 2025. An Analysis of Students’ Writing Anxiety and Its Influencing Factors in English Learning at SMP Islam Al-Ikhlas Karasan Magetan. Sarjana’s Thesis, English Language Teaching Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Islamic Institute of Ponorogo. Advisor: Desi Puspitasari, M.Pd.
Keyword: anxiety; factors; how to overcome; English Learning
Writing is one of the things that students must be able to do. Because writing is one of the main things done in the teaching and learning process. Even learning to write is a lesson that will be received in kindergarten. There is a possibility that we will experience anxiety when we are going to do something, especially in writing. Anxiety is a feeling that arises when worrying or being afraid of something. Writing anxiety means worry that arises when it comes to writing. In the process of teaching and learning English, writing sometimes makes students worry about their writing. They worry whether the writing they have made is correct or if there are still things wrong.
This research aims to find out the dominant types of students’ writing anxiety and the factors that influence it. Moreover, it also investigates how the teachers overcome the students’ writing anxiety during English Language Teaching at SMP Islam Al-Ikhlas Karasan Magetan. Then, to analyze the data of the research, the researcher used the theory from Miles and Huberman. Last, the researcher used triangulation to check the validity used the theory from Denzin in this research.
The researcher employed a qualitative study approach using descriptive qualitative design in this research. Then, the researcher used questionnaires and interviews as data collecting techniques. The data from the questionnaires was taken to find out the dominant type of anxiety and the factors that influenced anxiety experienced by the students. Moreover, interviews were conducted with the students and teachers to support the findings. In addition, researchers also interviewed teachers to find out how they overcame students' writing anxiety. Furthermore, the research analyzed the data using the following steps: data condensation, data display, and drawing and verifying conclusions.
The result of this research showed that of the three types of writing anxiety, the dominant type that students experience first is cognitive anxiety, the second is somatic anxiety, and the last is avoidance behavior. There are some factors that cause student writing anxiety. It starts from time limitation, high frequency of writing assignments, linguistic difficulties, insufficient writing technique, pressure for perfect work, problems with topic choice, low self-confidence in writing, fear of negative comments, insufficient writing practice or lack of experience, and fear of writing tests. The teachers did some ways to overcome students' writing anxiety, it involved using laptops given by school teachers facilitates students by giving them time to access the internet using Google Translate or dictionary, teachers create study groups, the teachers motivate students, the students can ask the teacher directly, and lastly, the students get assignments to memorize vocabulary in English and will be checked during English lessons.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate (S1)) |
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| Thesis Supervisor: | Desi Puspitasari |
| Subjects: | 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Perpustakaan Pusat |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2025 01:15 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2025 01:15 |
| URI: | http://etheses.uinponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/35099 |
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