The Effect of Revision and Students' Anxiety on Students' Writing Performance in the Twelfth Grade Students of SMKN 2 Kota Tangerang Selatan In 2015-2016 Academic Year

gatot muhsetyo...[et al.]; h. ujang suparman, m.a., ph.d; dr.ir. suciana wijirahayu, m.pd;

The objectives of this research are to seek (1) whether there is significant different effect between teacher revision and peer revision on students’ writing performance, (2) whether there is the effect of students’ anxiety on students writing performance, and (3) whether there is a significant interaction between the effect of revision and students’ anxiety on students’ writing performance.
This research was conducted in SMK Negeri 2 Kota Tangerang Selatan. It used cluster sampling from the population of 11 classes. The writer used 2 classes as the samples. One class was taught by using teacher revision, and the other one was taught by using peer revision. There were 2 instruments which would be used in this research. They are writing test and questionnaire. The writing test was used to measure students writing performance, and also used to determine the effect of revision on students’ writing performance. The questionnaire was used to investigate the level of students’ anxiety which was considered into 2 levels, low anxiety and high anxiety. To calculate the data, the writer applied SPSS.
The research findings are first there was a significant different effect between students taught by using teacher revision and those taught by using peer revision on students’ writing perfomance. This finding can be seen from the p-value with 0.000 which is smaller than alpha (α) with 0.05. Second, students’ anxiety had an effect on students’ writing performance. It is seen from the p-value with 0.023 which is smaller than alpha (α) with 0.05. The last, there was no interaction between revision and students’ anxiety on students’ writing performance. This finding can be confirmed from the p-value with 0.231 which is bigger than alpha (α) with 0.05