WRITING ANXIETY AND WRITING STRATEGIES USED BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITAS NEGERI PADANG

• Main Authors: Elsa Masriani, Mukhaiyar Mukhaiyar, Delvi Wahyuni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Negeri Padang 2018-09-01
• Series: Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa
• Subjects: writing anxiety, writing startegy
• Online Access: http://ejournal.unp.ac.id/index.php/linguadidaktika/article/view/8766

This study investigated the levels and types of writing anxiety and writing strategies used by 3rd year English department students of Universitas Negeri Padang. The participants of this study were 41 students. This descriptive quantitative study used two questionnaires as the instrument. The first questionnaire was SLWAI (Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory) by Cheng (2002) used to obtain the levels and types of writing anxiety. The writing strategies used by the participant were obtained from the second questionnaire namely Writing Strategy Scale developed by Raoofi et.al. (2017). The study found that the 3rdyear students of Universitas Negeri Padang experienced moderate level of writing anxiety with cognitive anxiety as the main type. The studey also found that the most used writing strategies were affective and metacognitive strategy.Key words/phrases: levels of writing anxiety, types of writing anxiety, writing strategies