An Analysis Of Reading Anxiety Of The Second Semester Students At English Language Education Universitas Islam Riau

Winingsih, Indrayani (2021) An Analysis Of Reading Anxiety Of The Second Semester Students At English Language Education Universitas Islam Riau. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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An Analysis of Reading Anxiety of the Second Semester Students at English Language Education Universitas Islam Riau. Thesis Pekanbaru: English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educaton, Universitas Islam Riau. Keywords: Reading, Anxiety, Reading Anxiety. This research aimed to classify the levels of students’ reading anxiety of the second semester students at English Language Education FKIP UIR. This descriptive research employed quantitative techniques was considered as an appropriate approach as a type of research. The population of this study was second semester students of English Education at Universitas Islam Riau, and the sample was A and B class that consist of 59 students. The data were collected from made questionnaire in the Google form and distributed online through whatsapp. the researcher adapted questionnaire from the research by Saito, Horwitz and Garza on Foreign Language Reading Anxiety and its association with General Foreign Language Anxiety (1999). The result of this research shows that majority of the students categorized as “Medium” level of reading anxiety. The researcher found that 8(14%) of students are categorize as low anxious, 39(66%) of students are categorize as medium anxious and 12(20%) of students are categorize as high anxious. The researcher can also state that students with lower levels of anxiety performed better on their reading test than those with higher levels of anxiety.

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