differences in the passive and relative constructions were a significant factor attributing to the participant English reading anxiety.
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E. The Conceptual Framework
Reading is one of the subjects that needed to be learned by the students in Indonesia. But, some students still get difficulty to understand the reading text. One
of the problems that may influence students understanding towards reading material is the difficulty of reading material itself since it is mostly written in English foreign
language. In addition, another factor that may influence students comprehension is psychological condition, in this case is anxiety. The students who is troubled with
anxiety may feel incapable to achieve a good result on the test or the task that the teacher gave. Thus, in a process of achieving a good result, the students would feel
difficult to concentrate, to remember ideas and to learn something new. Consequently, those negative feelings will influence their comprehension towards
what they read. Hence, the writer intends to investigate whether students with high anxiety will get low score in English reading comprehension, meanwhile the students
with low anxiety will get a high score in English reading comprehension. To know the students’ anxiety, it should be gives the students a questionnaire. The
questionnaire is to prove t he relationship between students’ anxiety and their English
reading comprehension.
F. The Research Hypotheses
The hypotheses of this research is formulated as follow: H
o
: The higher students’ anxiety does not guarantee the lower students’ English
descriptive reading comprehension. H
a :
The higher students’ anxiety, the lower students’ English descriptive reading comprehension.
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Yu-Hsiu Liu and Keiko K. Samimy, Survey on Anxiety in Reading Chinese-English Syntactic Differences: A Case of English Reading Anxiety in Taiwanese University Students, Theory
and Practice in Language Studies , 2, 2012.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Place and Time of the Research
The writer conducted the research at SMP Islamiyah Ciputat which is located at Jl. KH. Dewantara No. 23 Ciputat 15411 Tangerang Selatan. The research was held
form October 31
th
to November 7
th
, 2014. B.
The Method of the Research
The method of this research is survey employing correlational study. The correlational research design was chosen to find out whether or not the relationship
exist between two variables of the research. The independent variable of the research is students’ anxiety as X variable and the dependent variable is English reading
comprehension score as Y variable.
C. The Population and Sample
1. The population
The population of this research is the eighth grade students of SMP Islamiyah Ciputat in the academic year 20142015. There are 255 students who are divided into
six classes.
2. The Sample
In taking sample, the writer used random cluster sampling because it is more practical to use in a large number of populations. Based on the cluster that is used by
the writer in taking the sample, she randomly took 8.1 class which has 40 students in it.
