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INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014
i
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014
ii
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
iii
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
This thesis contains no such material as has been submitted for examination in any course
or accepted for the fulfillment of any degree or diploma in any university. To the best of
my knowledge and my belief, this contains no material previously published or written by
any other person except where due reference is made in the text.
Copyright@ 2014. Karmi Serewara Tuppang and Debora Tri Ragawanti, M.A-ELT.
All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced by any means without the
permission of at least one of the copyright owners or the English Teacher Education,
Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga.
Karmi Serewara Tuppang :
iv
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION
As a member of the (SWCU) Satya Wacana Christian University academic
community, I verify that:
Name
Student ID Number
Study Program
Faculty
Kind of Work
: Karmi Serewara Tuppang
: 112010131
: English Teacher Education
: Language and Literature
: Undergraduate thesis
In developing my knowledge, I agree to provide SWCU with a non-exclusive royalty free
right for my intellectual property and the contents there entitled:
Investigating Students’ Writing Anxiety: A Study at English Teacher
Education of Satya Wacana Christian University
Along with any pertinent equipment.
With this non-exclusive royalty free right, SWCU maintains the right to copy, reproduce,
print, publish, post, display, incorporate, store in or scan into a retrieval system or
database, transmit, broadcast, barter or sell my intellectual property, in whole or in part
without my express written permission, as long as my name is still included as the writer.
This declaration is made according to the best of my knowledge.
Made in: Salatiga
Date : April 28, 2014
v
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT ENGLISH
TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
ABSTRACT
As a foreign language, English often made English Teacher Education of Satya
Wacana Christian University students felt worried. Especially in writing, the students
have to pay attention to some things when they were writing in English such as grammar,
content, etc. In doing the practice of writing, learners are very possible to face problems
such as anxiety. The purposes of this study are to find out what type of writing anxiety
experienced by English Teacher Education of Satya Wacana Christian University
students and to investigate what extent the students experience a particular type of
writing anxiety. The data was obtained by distributing 56 close-ended questionnaires and
by doing interview to 15 participants. The result shows that Cognitive Anxiety is the
most common type of writing anxiety experienced by the students. In addition, this study
also found some factors that cause the students felt anxious, such as the perception from
teacher and classmates, writing class that they have never experienced before, writing
skills are lacking, the pressure from the teacher, writing under time constraint, and the
writing teacher who really focuses on grammar.
Key words: EFL, writing, type of writing anxiety, factors cause the students felt anxious
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014
i
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014
ii
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA
CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
112010131
iii
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
This thesis contains no such material as has been submitted for examination in any course
or accepted for the fulfillment of any degree or diploma in any university. To the best of
my knowledge and my belief, this contains no material previously published or written by
any other person except where due reference is made in the text.
Copyright@ 2014. Karmi Serewara Tuppang and Debora Tri Ragawanti, M.A-ELT.
All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced by any means without the
permission of at least one of the copyright owners or the English Teacher Education,
Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga.
Karmi Serewara Tuppang :
iv
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION
As a member of the (SWCU) Satya Wacana Christian University academic
community, I verify that:
Name
Student ID Number
Study Program
Faculty
Kind of Work
: Karmi Serewara Tuppang
: 112010131
: English Teacher Education
: Language and Literature
: Undergraduate thesis
In developing my knowledge, I agree to provide SWCU with a non-exclusive royalty free
right for my intellectual property and the contents there entitled:
Investigating Students’ Writing Anxiety: A Study at English Teacher
Education of Satya Wacana Christian University
Along with any pertinent equipment.
With this non-exclusive royalty free right, SWCU maintains the right to copy, reproduce,
print, publish, post, display, incorporate, store in or scan into a retrieval system or
database, transmit, broadcast, barter or sell my intellectual property, in whole or in part
without my express written permission, as long as my name is still included as the writer.
This declaration is made according to the best of my knowledge.
Made in: Salatiga
Date : April 28, 2014
v
INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ WRITING ANXIETY: A STUDY AT ENGLISH
TEACHER EDUCATION OF SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Karmi Serewara Tuppang
ABSTRACT
As a foreign language, English often made English Teacher Education of Satya
Wacana Christian University students felt worried. Especially in writing, the students
have to pay attention to some things when they were writing in English such as grammar,
content, etc. In doing the practice of writing, learners are very possible to face problems
such as anxiety. The purposes of this study are to find out what type of writing anxiety
experienced by English Teacher Education of Satya Wacana Christian University
students and to investigate what extent the students experience a particular type of
writing anxiety. The data was obtained by distributing 56 close-ended questionnaires and
by doing interview to 15 participants. The result shows that Cognitive Anxiety is the
most common type of writing anxiety experienced by the students. In addition, this study
also found some factors that cause the students felt anxious, such as the perception from
teacher and classmates, writing class that they have never experienced before, writing
skills are lacking, the pressure from the teacher, writing under time constraint, and the
writing teacher who really focuses on grammar.
Key words: EFL, writing, type of writing anxiety, factors cause the students felt anxious