AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Opriorika, G and Mulyadi, Mulyadi and Sufiyandi, Sufiyandi (2022) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING ENGLISH. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aimed to determine the level and the factors that caused students’ anxiety in learning English that were faced by first semester students of Journalism Study Program Bengkulu University academic year 2021-2022. This research was descriptive quantitative. The sample of this research was first semester students of Journalism Study Program Bengkulu University, the total numbers of the students were 73 students from A and B class. The data were collected by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 33 items which represent 3 categories of students’ anxiety that is adapted from Horwitz et. al (1986). The questionnaire has been validated by using expert judgments. In this instrument, the reliability obtains by using Cronbach’s Alpha formula in SPSS software. This research used simple statistical (percentage and weighted average) to analyze the data. The results of this research showed that the majority of the students (54 out of 73) were in the medium level of anxiety, it means that overall anxiety level students of Journalism Study Program Bengkulu University is medium anxiety in learning English at the first semester. There were three factors that cause students’ anxiety in learning English at Journalism Study Program Bengkulu University; Fear of Negative Evaluation, Communication, and Test Anxiety. The majority factor that caused students’ Anxiety in learning English at Journalism Study Program Bengkulu University mostly came from fear of negative evaluation. Keywords: Anxiety, Anxiety level, Anxiety factors.

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