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2. Defining the Population

The researcher focused on the students in Class D second semester of ELESP Sanata Dharma University who took Paragraph Writing. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to all of the students. At the end, the researcher interviewed 2 students out of 30 students in Class D randomly.

3. Gathering the Data

In order to gather the data, the researcher distributed the questionnaire on April 13 th , 2015. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to all of Paragraph Writing students. In order to avoid the distraction in the teaching and learning process, the researcher distributed the questionnaire after the class. The participants filled the questionnaire directly after the class in order to limit the time. After getting all the questionnaires, the researcher started to analyze the data. The researcher also interviewed 2 students out of 30 students to clarify the result of questionnaire data.

4. Analyzing the Data Result

The last step of the research procedure is analyzing and interpreting the data from two previous steps; distributing questionnaire and interviewing students. The result of data interpreting and analyzing was stated as a conclusion of the research. After all of the procedures were done, the researcher presented the result in the Chapter IV. 40

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

In this chapter the researcher presents the data obtained and the analysis of the data. There are two major parts which are discussed in this chapter. Those are the research findings and the discussion of the findings which have been gathered by employing two research instruments: questionnaires and interviews. In the first section, the researcher presents the findings. In this section, the researcher presents the findings from the questionnaire and interviews which have been gathered. The numerical data from the questionnaire was converted into statements and the interview data is related to the questionnaire as the supporting data. There are four sub discussions: st udents’ anxious feeling before using five- minute freewriting in Paragraph Writing class, the factors which influence students’ writing anxiety, students’ anxious feeling after using five-minute freewriting in Paragraph Writing class, and to what extent five-minute freewriting can reduce students’ writing anxiety in Paragraph Writing class. The last section is the discussion of the findings. This section overviews the general result of the use of five-minute freewriting to reduce their writing anxiety in Paragraph Writing.