Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLCAS. S tudents’ score in every target
language classes is taken to find its relationship with language anxiety. The results show that language anxiety and reading score are negatively related to
each other.
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Then, in 2004, Andri from Islamic State University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta conducted
“The Students’ Anxiety in Correlation with Achievement in Their Final Reading Test
” with 60 students from the second term of English Education department of Islamic State University Syarif
Hidayatullah Jakarta. The result indicates that there is negative correlation between students’ anxiety and their reading score in English learning in
moderate level.
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E. Conceptual Framework
Anxiety plays a role in foreign language learning, in this case English. Anxiety can be defined as an expression of apprehension and tension in
particular situation that people worry about in unspecific time. Anxiety influences students’ performance and achievements, as an example in
students’ reading performance. Reading is described as a process of getting
meaning from the written symbols —letters or words in the texts, in order to
obtain some information. Students with higher level of anxiety tend to be harder in comprehending the reading text and opposed. It can be seen that
several studies showed the negative significant correlation between students’
anxiety and their reading skill in learning English. It seems like anxiety is important enough to be identified because it determines students’ success in
learning the English. Thus, the writer thought that it is interesting enough to discuss such
phenomenon further. In addition, the explanation above seemed to be the
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Yoshiko Saito, Thomas J. Garza, and E.K. Horwitz, Foreign Language Reading Anxiety, The Modern Language Journal, vol. 83, 1999, pp. 202-218.
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Dafitri Andri, “The Students’ anxiety in Correlation with Achievement in Their Final
Reading Test A Case Study at the Second Term Students of English Department UIN ”,Skripsi in
UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2004.
reason why the writer wanted to conduct this study. The writer wants to know how anxious students are while they learn English subject especially in
reading skill, using Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLCAS from Horwitz. Hence the result can be used by teachers to pay more attention
to their students, especially students who got the low achievement.
F. Research Hypothesis
These are the hypothesis from the whole explanation above: H
: There is no significant correlation between students’ anxiety and their
reading skill in learning English of the tenth year students of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang.
H
a
: There is significant correlation between students’ anxiety and their
reading skill in learning English of the tenth year students of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang.
