The Effect of Students’ Anxiety on Their English Achievement at Ninth Grade of SMPN 1 Ajung

Luklua, Mariamal (2021) The Effect of Students’ Anxiety on Their English Achievement at Ninth Grade of SMPN 1 Ajung. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: Anxiety, English Achievement English has become one of compulsory subjects taught in most of Indonesian school. Nevertheless, most of students faced difficulties in English learning. Based on the preliminary study, it was found that many of them did not like English subject and it impacted on their English achievement. There were many students got under the criteria of minimum score determined by the school. Besides, there were many students who had no confidence either in writing or in speaking class. Therefore, this research wanted to know whether there was significant effect of students’ anxiety on their English achievement at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ajung. The objectives of this research were: 1) to describe the level of students’ anxiety at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ajung, 2) to describe the level of students’ English achievement at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ajung, 3) to examine whether there was significant effect of students’ anxiety on their English achievement at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ajung. This research design was quantitative with associative approach consisting of two variables, dependent and independent variables. The sampling technique used was proportionate stratified random sampling in which the researcher identified the characteristics based on the students’ achievement level classification. The researcher adopted students’ anxiety from Horwitz to check the level of students’ anxiety. Meanwhile, the students’ achievement was taken from their mid-term test score because the process of this research took for 2 semesters. After validating the questionnaire to validator, the researcher distributed it to the sample. Then, the researcher analyzed the association by using simple regression analysis. The results showed: 1) students’ anxiety level at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ạjung were 12,5% in low category, 60,71% in moderate category, and 26,78% in high category, 2) students’ English achievement level at Ninth grade of SMPN 1 Ajung were 25% in low category, 58,03% in moderate category, and 16,96% in high category, 3) there was significant negative effect (22,6%) of students’ anxiety on their English achievement at Ninth Grade of SMPN 1 Ajung. It indicated that students who had higher anxiety level tended to have lower achievement level. On the contrary, students who had lower anxiety level tended to have higher achievement level.

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