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.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time of the Research
This study was conducted at SMKN 3 Kota Tangerang. It is located at Jl. Moh. Yamin SH, Babakan, Kota Tangerang. This study was implemented
on July 2015.
B. Method and Research Design
1. Method
Correlation is used in this study to know the relationship between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill at school. Correlational
research is used to describe and measure the degree of association or relationship between two or more variables or sets of scores.
1
It is specified as one of quantitative designs.
2. Research Design
This study is conducted to identify the correlation between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill. The writer associated two
variables and interpreted the result. The type of this correlational design is explanatory study in which investigators measure the degree of association
or relation between two or more variables using the statistical procedure of correlational analysis.
2
Students’ anxiety was independent variable symbolized by “X”, while the students’ achievement in learning English
was dependent variable symbolized by “Y”.
To achieve this purpose, the writer adopted Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLACS questionnaire which is constructed by
Howirtz. The questionnaire focused on communication anxiety, fear of
1
John W Creswell, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, Boston: Pearson, 2012, p. 338.
2
John W Creswell, Op.cit., p. 340.
