EFL Students’ Writing Anxiety and Their Expectations from Essay Writing Courses at English Department UHAMKA

dini nurmala; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d;

Annisha Aulia. 1801055151. EFL Students’ Writing Anxiety and Their Expectations from Essay Writing Courses at English Department UHAMKA. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education. The School of Teacher Training and Education. The University Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2022.
Being able to write various academic genres in English has been one of the most important competencies for students in many disciplines. Even though they should write in various academic, they often see it as a difficulty which lead the students to anxiety in writing. The purpose of this study was conduct to investigate the types of anxiety and expectations from EFL students in the 8th semester of English Department UHAMKA. This study identified what types of students’ anxiety in the writing classrooms and their expectations in learning writing based on the students’ perspectives and Second Language Anxiety (SLWAI) by Cheng (2004) as the guidance. This study used a qualitative method with a case study approach. Fifteen students were selected as the participants. The data were collected from semi-structured interview. The results of the study revealed that cognitive anxiety is the dominant type of anxiety in essay writing courses and had expectations from taking the courses.