Factors Influencing Students’ Writing Anxiety on The First Semester at Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Jakarta on The First Semester in 2020/2021 Academic Year

Gatot Habi Prakoso, (1601055096). “Factors Influencing Students’ Writing Anxiety on The First Semester at Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Jakarta on The First Semester in 2020/2021 Academic Year”. A paper of study programme of English Education Faculty of Teacher and Education Studies, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2020.
Anxiety is a feeling of fear and worry that causes panic. Anxiety can occur in random activities that the suffer assumes something bad will happen. According to that points, the researcher will investigate the factors influencing students writing anxiety. This reseaarch applied qualitative method. Interviews was used to get the information related on. The participants of this research were five students of SMP Negeri 13 Jakarta. The sample used purposive sampling. Zoom was used as a media to interview during pandemic Covid 19. The teacher decided five students that looked anxiety in English writing class. The five students were given to the researcher to be interviewed in order to collect the information. The results showed the factors influencing students’ writing anxiety were divided into two factors, those were internal factors and external factors. The internal factors include the students had no writing habit of the students, and resulted by fear of making mistakes. The external factors include cover how teacher instruct, their clasmates ridicolus acts, negative feedback from teacher and friends.