An Analysis on Writing Anxiety of Indonesian EFL College Learners

Wahyuni, Sri; Umam, M. Khotibul

doi:10.30762/jeels.v4i1.333

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“…13. This finding is in support with the finding of Wahyuni and Umam's study [3], Ariyanti's study which suggest that Indonesian EFL learners mostly suffered from a high level of writing anxiety but is in contrast with the finding of Sundari's and Febriyanti's study which suggests that Indonesian EFL learners do not feel very anxious when writing English. However, this kind of phenomenon, that many students suffer from a high level of writing anxiety is not only the typical of Indonesian learners since the study of Jennifer and Ponniah in India [15], Rezaei and Jafari in Iran [13] also suggest the similar things.…”

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“…The study of Ariyanti for example found that many learners were suffering from a high level of writing anxiety [2]. Another study as written by Wahyuni and Umam also found out that more than half of their research respondents suffered from a high writing anxiety [3]. This condition is very unfavourable because anxiety has been proven to negatively correlate with learning achievement [4,5].…”

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English Writing Anxiety and the Writing Problems of Indonesia EFL Learners

Hartono¹,

Maharani²

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019)

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This descriptive research investigated the level of English writing anxiety experienced by Indonesian EFL students. The respondents were 38 undergraduate students of English Literature program of a university in Semarang Central Java, Indonesia taking Essay Writing course which adopted portfolios as the assessment method. Data were collected by two closed questionnaires; the one was for collecting data of English writing anxiety and the second was for collecting data of writing problems faced by students which may trigger the anxiety arousal. The results show that the students experienced a high level of English writing anxiety and cognitive anxiety was the students suffered most. Gender doesn't affect the level of anxiety experienced by the students; neither does the perception of writing difficulties. Grammar problem becomes the most mentioned-cause of anxiety followed by vocabulary problem and insufficient writing practice. To reduce the anxiety, therefore, it is recommended that writing teachers sufficiently address the issue of grammar and vocabulary as well as provides students with a lot of more writing practices.

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English Writing Anxiety and the Writing Problems of Indonesia EFL Learners

Hartono¹,

Maharani²

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2019)

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“…This is in line with the result of the study conducted by Wahyuni & Umam (2017) which shows that linguistics difficulties and negative comments are the two main causes of the students' fear and anxiety to writing in English. These fear and anxiety, if not solved properly, might affect the students' attitude toward writing in English.…”

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The Eight Graders Writing Attitude toward Efl Writing in Indonesian Context

Setyowati¹

2017

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The way the students feel about writing may affect how well they accomplish the writing task. To write well and to achieve the maximum performance in writing, the students need to have positive attitude toward it so that they can find solutions and strategies whenever they face writing problems. The purpose of the study is to describe the students' writing attitude toward writing in English and to find out their opinion and feeling toward writing. The present study uses mixed method design, by using survey to get quantitative data and interview to get qualitative data. The instruments used were questionnaires and interview. The data was taken by using systematic random sampling which results in 101 respondents from a state junior high school situated in the rural area of a small town of Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.The finding of the research shows that the Eighth Grade Students' writing attitude toward writing in English was positive and in moderate level (82.12%). The students were sufficiently confident about their writing and viewed writing as a fun activity and an enjoyable experience. Although the students' attitude fall in the moderate category, they confessed that they had problems in writing, such as the linguistics problem, and the psychological problem.

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“…Basically, these facts appeared on the students' reasons because of their negative perception toward writing. Therefore, they experienced writing anxiety (Kurniashi, 2013;Huwari & Aziz, 2011;Fareed et al, 2016;and Wahyuni & Umam, 2017), in which, the factors that cause writing anxiety of Indonesian EFL students were difficulties in linguistics, worry of teachers' comments negatively, inadequate writing technique and practice, lack of topic knowledge, and time pressure (Kurniashi, 2013 andWahyuni &Umam, 2017). Additionally, low ability and writing anxiety of students were pressured by some factors they are untrained writing instructors, ineffective teaching methods of writing, insufficient system of writing examination, lack of reading and writing practice, big classes, low motivation, and limited ideas (Fareed et al, 2016).…”

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The Current Issues of Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Skills: Ability, Problem, and Reason in Writing Comparison and Contrast Essay

Toba

Noor

Sanu³

2019

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The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students’ writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay writing course. The three research instruments; essay writing test, open-ended questionnaire and interview were used in the data collection. The findings of this study revealed that the Indonesian EFL students’ writing ability was good that categorized with the mean score 77.83. However, some of them encounter problems in writing aspects including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. Their reasons in experiencing these problems are not only limited knowledge of writing aspects and comparison and contrast essay itself, but also they had own personal reasons; lack of writing practice, writing dislike, writing anxiety, negative writing perception, low writing motivation, insufficient time given in writing test, and also inadequate teaching writing process taught by their lecturers. Indeed, the teaching writing improvement that involved EFL students and lecturers should be well-integrated in order to alleviate the students’ essay writing problems related to their reasons and to improve their writing ability. Factors caused the writing difficulties will be discussed further and some suggestions will be given on this research.

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An Analysis on Writing Anxiety of Indonesian EFL College Learners

Cited by 41 publications

References 4 publications

English Writing Anxiety and the Writing Problems of Indonesia EFL Learners

English Writing Anxiety and the Writing Problems of Indonesia EFL Learners

The Eight Graders Writing Attitude toward Efl Writing in Indonesian Context

The Current Issues of Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Skills: Ability, Problem, and Reason in Writing Comparison and Contrast Essay

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