The Relationship between Students’ Anxiety and Their Writing Recount Text Ability of the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Mutiara 1 Jakarta in the 2022/2023 Academic Year

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RATIH PRATIWI ASRI. NIM : 1801055066. The Relationship
between Students’ Anxiety and Their Writing Recount Text Ability of
the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Mutiara 1 Jakarta in the 2022/2023
Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The Study Programme of English
Education, The School of Teachers Training and Education, The
University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka Jakarta 2022. The
objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence of whether or
not there is a significant relationship between anxiety and writing skill
of the tenth grade students of SMA Mutiara 1 Jakarta in the 2022/2023
academic year. The writer used the quantitative survey method by using
correlation technique. The population of this research was the tenth
grade students of SMA Mutiara 1 Jakarta, and the writer only took 1
class of natural science (10-1 social class) consisting of 40 students for
the sample of the research. The instruments used for this research were
the questionnaire of anxiety and the test of writing skill. The scores of
the the two variables were calculated by using the formula of Pearson’s
Product Moment. The finding of the analysis and statistical calculation
showed that robserved is 0.2197 and rtable is 0.126 in the significant
level of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df = n- 2) is around 38. As a
result, robserved is higher than rtable. Therefore, Ho is rejected and Hi
is accepted. So, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Therefore, it can be
concluded that there is a significant relationship between anxiety and
students’ writing skill of the tenth grade students of SMA Mutiara 1
Jakarta in the 2022/2023 academic year.