STUDENTS’ ANXIETY JOINING THESIS WRITING AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

In accordance with the rules of each university, all students must work on a final project in the form of a thesis which will be published at both the university and national levels. To describe the types and investigate the causes of writing anxiety experienced by ELED students in their thesis writing course. These things can cause anxiety when working on the thesis. This research uses a qualitative method, class A as research subjects English education 2016 and the instruments are interview guide and Forum Group Discussion. From the results of research conducted on students in the English education department of UMM, From the results of research conducted on students of the English Department of UMM, it was found that students often experience cognitive anxiety which occurs when students feel worried and uncomfortable when the thesis is assessed by the lecturer and somatic anxiety when students' minds become blank when they start writing theses and are under the deadline