AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING ENGLISH

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.