An Analysis of Factors Contributing to Reading Anxiety Among Senior High School Student at SMAN 105 Jakarta 2020/2021 Academic Year (A Survey)

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NURUL FITRIANI. 1701055088. An Analysis of Factors Contributing to
Reading Anxiety Among Senior High School Student at SMAN 105 Jakarta
2020/2021 Academic Year (A Survey). A Paper; The Study Programme of English
Education, The School of Teachers’ Training and Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka Jakarta 2021.
This research aims to identify EFL reading anxiety levels and factors in
tenth-grade students at SMAN 105 Jakarta in the 2020/2021 Academic Year. This
research employed survey research. The participants were the Tenth-grade students
that consisted of 110 students enrolling in SMAN 105 Jakarta. In collecting the
data, the English Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Inventory (EFLRAI)
questionnaire was used to indicate the level and potential causes of reading anxiety.
The questionnaire consisted of 23 items that were adapted from (Masoud Zoghi &
Alivandivafa, 2012). The data were analyzed by using Microsoft Excel and SPSS
25. Based on the study results, the Tenth-grade students of SMAN 105 Jakarta have
a moderate reading anxiety level. The findings also describe three factors of EFL
reading anxiety as follows: the most affecting and the highest score is the factors of
Bottom-up reading anxiety (BRA) with a mean (M=2.82), followed by Top-down
reading anxiety (TRA) with a mean (M=2.78), and lastly Classroom reading anxiety
(CRA) with a mean (M=2.35).