EFL students’ emotions during thesis writing

For final semester students, the thesis writing period is a challenging time. It takes mental strength, and physical because there can be many stages to go through. In the final stage, students can present the results of their research in front of the examining lecturer. This process is often feared by students. The reason is, students can be asked using various questions from examiners about the research. So it is not strange that students feel daunted and afraid. So that not a few students experience mental health problems during the thesis making process. This study aims to explore the emotional experiences of final year EFL students during the process of working on a thesis. The method used in this study was to use narrative inquiry. The research data obtained from the results of virtual interviews were analyzed using an emotional geography framework by Hargreaves. The results showed that while working on the thesis, final year students experienced emotional challenges. That during the thesis work process, students experience emotional challenges that they feel anxious, agitated, stressed, confused, angry, and disappointed. This finding is expected to be able to provide information related to the emotional condition felt by final year students. In addition, it is an evaluation material so that in the future both students and the campus community are able to collaborate in the process of completing the final project to final year students. And able to provide information related to emotional geography experienced by EFL students, especially final year students