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2. Factors which Influence Students’ Writing Anxiety in Paragraph
Writing class
The following part presented the factors which might influence EFL students’ writing anxiety in Paragraph Writing class. According to Hyland 2003
and Sawalha et al. 2012, the six major factors of anxiety were: 1 having difficulty in finding ideas, 2 having lack of vocabulary, 3 having difficulty in
producing correct sentence, 4 making grammatical mistakes, 5 making minimum requirement mistakes, and 6 being evaluated. Moreover, Iswandari
2013 in her research which was conducted to 29 Basic Writing Skill students of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University found
out three major factors which influence students’ writing anxiety. According to Iswandari 2013, the three major factors which influence stude
nts’ writing anxiety were: 1 making grammatical mistakes, 2 having difficulty in finding
ideas, 3 making minimum requirement mistakes. Furthermore, the researcher adapted Hyland 2003 and Sawalha e al. 2012 theory about the factors which
influence students’ writing anxiety. The result can be seen in Table 4.2.
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Table 4.2 Factors Which Influence Students’ Writing Anxiety in Paragraph
Writing class No
Statements Frequency of Points Agreements
1 Strongly
Disagree 2
Disagree 3
Agree 4
Strongly Agree
1. I feel anxious because
my Basic Writing score is bad
1 3.6
10 35.7
15 53.6
2 7.1
2. I feel anxious because
my vocabulary is bad 11
39.3
11 39.3
6 21.4
3. I feel anxious because
my structure is bad 1
3.6 7
25
15 53.6
5 17.8
4. I feel anxious because
I can’t develop my ideas well
1 3.6
12 42.8
15 53.6
5. I feel anxious because
I don’t like writing 2
7.1
17 60.7
4 14.3
5 17.8
6. I feel anxious because
I think writing is difficult
1 3.6
11 39.3
14 50
2 7.1
Table 4.2 deals with the factors which might influence EFL Students’ writing anxiety in Paragraph Writing class. The first statement is related to
whether the respondents felt anxious because hisher Basic Writing score was bad. Basic Writing is a course which has to be taken before in the first semester, while
Paragraph Writing is a course which has to be taken in second semester. The result showed that two respondents 7.
1 chose “strongly agree”, fifteen respondents 53.6 cho
se “agree”, ten respondents 35.7 chose “disagree”, and one respondent 3.
6 chose “strongly disagree”. The first statement showed
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that 60.7 7.1 for strongly agree and 53.6 for agree of the respondents felt anxious because their Basic Writing score was bad and 39.3 35.7 for disagree
and 3.6 for strongly disagree of the respondents felt anxious because their Basic Writing score was not bad. It was also supported by the open-ended result
which answered that they were not satisfied with their Basic Writing score and they were afraid if they could not write well. The researcher found that the bad
Basic Writing score was one of the factors which influenced their writing anxiety. Therefore, the researcher concluded that EFL Students with low score on their
writing mostly felt anxious than others who got high scores. The second statement is related to whether the respondents felt anxious
because their vocabulary is bad. The result showed that six respondents 21.4 chose “strongly agree”, eleven respondents 39.3 chose “agree”, and eleven
respondents 39. 3 chose “disagree”. It showed that most of the respondents felt
anxious because hisher vocabulary was bad since 60.7 21.4 for strongly agree and 39.3 for agree of the respondents agreed with that statement. It was
supported by the result of open-ended question which answered that they lost their self-esteem because their vocabulary was weak and they thought it could affect
their score. It was also strengthened by the interview result which explained that the respondents felt anxious because they were lack of vocabulary as shown by
Respondent A: “…I feel anxious because I am lack of vocabulary”.
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