Damayanti, Eva (2021) The Correlation Between Students’ Anxiety and Continuity Writing Undergrauate Thesis of English Department at IAIN Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out whether there was a correlation between students’ anxiety and continuity writing undergraduate thesis of English Department at IAIN Metro. Writing undergraduate thesis, many undergraduate students have some factors of the difficulties they face. The difficulties of students in linguistic problem, for example the ideas, structure, lack of vocabulary, and rewrite or paraphrase are some examples of the difficulties in writing a thesis that the students commonly face. Anxiety is one of the psychology phenomenon which is commonly identified as a feeling of threatened, apprehension, worry and tension.

This research was a quantitative research. The population of this research was the students in writing undergraduate thesis of English department at IAIN Metro. The sample of this research was 30 students. The researcher used questionnaire and documentation as the data collecting method. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used pearson product moment correlation.

The result of data analysis shows that ―r test‖ for correlation between students anxiety and continuity writing undergraduate thesis is 0.650, after considering the Product Moment table by using df 28 it can be found that the critical value of r Product Moment for the 5% level is 0.374 and for the 1% level is 0.478. The data confirmed that ―r test‖ is higher than ―r table‖. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a positive and significant correlation between the students’ anxiety and continuity writing undergraduate thesis of English department at IAIN Metro.

Keywords: English, Students’ Anxiety, Writing Thesis

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