An Analysis Of Students' Writing Anxiety At Second Semester In English Language Education Of Universitas Islam Riau

ABSTRACT Rafitra Aulia Faurianda. 2020. An Analysis of Studentsâ' Writing Anxiety at Second Semester in English Language Education of Universitas Islam Riau (UIR). Thesis. Pekanbaru: English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Riau. This research aims to describe the second semester students’ writing anxiety. This descriptive research employed qualitative aprroach. The population of this study was the second semester students of English Language Education at Universitas Islam Riau,.^(n=(95)) while the sample was selected through cluster random sampling that consist of 55 students. The data were collected from the questionnaire adopted from Cheng (2004), that consist of three indicator of anxiety; somatic anxiety, avoidance anxiety, and cognitive anxiety, and also used interview. The techniques of data analysis involved collecting the data, presenting the data, and interpreting the data. The result showed that The percentage of the students’ response was also categorized into three type of indicator. 35.36% of the students feel anxious of somatic anxiety, 30.71% of the students experienced in avoidance anxiety, and 36.56% for the cognitive anxiety. The finding shows most of the students felt afraid to write English, furthermore they fear if they making mistake when they write in English compositions, felt nervous, and less confident because they have lack vocabulary