An Analysis of Students’ Writing Anxiety at English Education Study Program of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang

The aims of this research are to know the factors cause students writing anxiety and to find the way to anticipate students writing anxiety. This study was qualitative research. The research used students at the fifth semester at English Education Study Program of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang and the total 6 students by using purposeful sampling. Interview was conducted to find the factors of students writing anxiety and the data from interview were analyzed by using thematic analysis. The findings showed that there were six factors of students writing anxiety and various way to anticipate students writing anxiety (1) time pressure; (2) low of self- confidence; (3) insufficient writing technique; (4) language difficulties; (5) lack of experience; and (6) high frequency of assignment