Discussions The Relationship between Students' Anxiety and Their English Reading Skill

D. Limitation

There were some limitations that were found in this study. The first limitation was the questionnaire which was adopted by the writer is in English version. In order to prevent the misunderstanding, it would be better if it is translated properly by more than one expert. However, the writer here is only helped by one expert to translate the 33 items. The second limitation was the reading score which was directly obtained from the teacher. In other word, the reading instrument was conducted by the teacher. It might be better if the reading instrument was made by the writer so the data might be more accurate. Many factors such as students’ condition and situation when accomplishing both tests anxiety questionnaire and reading test and the environment in which the tests took place also could become the limitation of this study. Those limitations and problems mentioned above might influence the reliability, validity and credibility of this research finding. 46 CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusions

This study is purposed to find out the correlation between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill at tenth year students of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang. The conclusions of this study were explained here. The conclusion can be sum up that there is negative significant correlation between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang in which most of students with higher anxiety got lower English reading ability and students with lower anxiety got higher English reading ability.The coefficient correlation r o that has been obtained is -0.761. This value of r o shows that the correlation is high. In addition, the result of t test is -12.64. The results of r o and t test proved that the correlation is significant. Afterward, the result of coefficient of determination R is 57.9, in which this value describes the contribution of students’ anxiety to students’ English reading skill is fairly high. Meanwhile, the remains of coefficient determination R is 42.1 shows that there are other aspects that effect their achievement in learning English; such as students’ motivation, students’ inter est in learning English, students’ previous knowledge, students’ physical situation or concentration in learning English, and so on. Hence it can be concluded that there is a negative and strong correlation between students’ anxiety and their English reading skill of tenth year students of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang.

B. Implications

Based on the conclusion arrived from the research finding of this study, it was found that the students’ anxiety in learning a foreign language has significant influence in stu dents’ English reading skill of the tenth year students of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang. Consequently, it is highly recommended to the English teachers of SMK Negeri 3 Kota Tangerang to design the comfortable classroom situation to decrease stude nts’ anxiety. Therefore, the students can increase their language competence as well, especially in learning English as a foreign language.

C. Suggestions

From this study, the writer would like to offer some suggestions in teaching and learning English, in which in our country English is a foreign language. Hopefully, the suggestions are able to improve the quality of teaching and learning English. The suggestions are tended to: 1. Students The result of this study showed that the correlation of students’ anxiety and students’ English reading skill is quite high. Students should positively think that English is important for their life in the future, especially Akomodasi Perhotelan AP students and Tata Boga students of SMK N 3 Kota Tangerang. After graduate from this school, students are sued to work in which English is very needed in this field. Then, students need to reduce their anxiety in dealing with the English subject so the English achievement can increase. 2. Teachers Teacher should improve their teaching way through come close to the students in order to make class situation warmer and more comfortable. Furthermore, teacher should established learning situation more attractive, fascinating and motivating. Thus, students might be less anxious and learning English purpose can be completed well. 3. Other Researchers To other researchers who are interested in doing a research about learning anxiety, especially in foreign language field, this research might be a relevant previous study that can be used to conduct a further research relating to students’ anxiety and language achievement, especially in reading skill. The next researchers are able to add the technique of data collecting, such as observation and interview, in order to obtain the result which is more accurate than the previous study.