Exploring Thesis Writing Anxiety of the Eight Semester Students in ELT in the 20223-2024 Academic Year at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember

Atikah Dini, Alivia (2025) Exploring Thesis Writing Anxiety of the Eight Semester Students in ELT in the 20223-2024 Academic Year at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Key words: writing Anxiety, thesis writing proposal
Writing is one of the skills in learning English that has to be mastered by students,
especially for undergraduate students. Writing is the most difficult subject.
Writing anxiety is a word used to describe one or more thoughts, feelings, or
actions that make it difficult for a person to start, work on, or finish a writing
assignment of which they are intellectually capable.
Therefore, this research raises three research questions: (1) 1. What are the type of
students writing anxiety in writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT
at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember?, (2) What are the causes of writing
anxiety in writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT at UIN Kiai Haji
Achmad Siddiq Jember?, and (3) What are the strategies to cope writing anxiety
in writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad
Siddiq Jember? Then, the research objectives are: (1) To analyze the type of
students writing anxiety in writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT
at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember , (2) To analyze the causes of writing
anxiety in writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT at UIN Kiai Haji
Achmad Sidddiq Jember, (3) To analyze the strategies to cope writing anxiety in
writing a thesis of the eight semester students in ELT at UIN Kiai Haji Achmad
Siddiq Jember
This research employed descriptive-qualitative as the method of the research. It
was conducted in UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember. The data were gathered
by observation, interview, and document review. Source and technique
triangulation were used to validate the data.
Based on the interview results, eight-semester students reported with the most
common type of cognitive feeling experienced by students. It was also discovered
that three factors and strategies to cope students' writing anxiety: (1) linguistic
difficulties with the strategies were learning more grammar and reading more
research results, (2) time pressure with the strategies was trying to compose text
extensively. and (3) fear of lecturers’ negative comment with the strategies was
consulting more to the supervisor intensively.

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