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A. Findings
In this section, the researcher presents the findings of the two research questions. The main instrument was the questionnaire followed by the interview
to get the deeper answers from the data. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to twenty eight students of Paragraph Writing class D at the English
Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. Since five- minute freewriting was implemented in Paragraph Writing class D, the researcher
chose this class to be observed. In the questionnaire, the researcher provided the agreement scales which
were in the form of Likert Scale. The respondents had to choose one of the degrees of frequencies that were provided. The researcher distributed the
questionnaires to twenty eight students in Paragraph Writing class D. This questionnaire consisted of two parts which were close-ended questions and open-
ended questions. The researcher provided fourteen close-ended statements with the degree of frequency: strongly disagree 1, disagree 2, agree 3, and strongly
agree 4 and four open-ended questions. The questionnaire aimed to answer the first research question. Besides, the researcher also provided four questions for
the interview section to two students. The interview aimed to support the answer of the first research question and answered the second research question.
Therefore, the researcher presents the findings by dividing the findings into four parts.
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1. Students’ Anxious feeling Before Using Five-minute Freewriting
In this part, the researcher investigated students’ anxious feeling before
using five-minute freewriting which means at the beginning of Paragraph Writing class. According to Daud and Kasim 2005,
“writing anxiety will affect directly to students’ writing performance, which will lead to the quality of the writing” as
cited in Iswandari, 2013, p.41. Therefore, it is important to find the factors of EFL students’ writing anxiety. The researcher provided seven general close-ended
statements related to the feeling and factors which might influence respondents’
writing anxiety in Paragraph Writing class. The result can be seen in Table 4.1.
Table 4.1 Students’ Anxious Feeling before Using Five-minute Freewriting in Paragraph Writing class
No Statements
Frequency of Points Agreements
1 Strongly
Disagree 2
Disagree 3
Agree 4
Strongly Agree
1. I feel anxious at the
beginning of
Paragraph Writing
Class 1
3.6 10
35.7
14 50
3 10.7
Table 4.1 deals with respondents’ anxious feeling before using five-minute freewriting. The statement is related to whether the respondents felt anxious at the
beginning of Paragraph Writing class. Based on the data of the questionnaire, there were three out of 28 respondents 10.
7 chose “strongly agree”, fourteen 50 respondents
chose “agree”, ten respondents 35.7 chose “disagree”, and one respondent 3.
6 chose “strongly disagree”. The table showed that 60.7