Analysis of Students’ Writing Anxiety in Academic Writing Class at English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang.

Writing. In this study, the researcher analyze students’ writing anxiety in Academic
Writing class at English department of Universitas Negeri Padang and the author discuss about
the levels, types, and causes of writing anxiety in learning Academic Writing. This study is
conducted based on students’ problem about anxiety in writing especially in Academic Writing
class. The study used descriptive quantitative research method. The data were collected by
distributing writing anxiety questionnaire and written interview which were analyzed
statistically. 25 4th semester students of 2019 class participated in this research. The result of
Analysis students’ writing anxiety showed that 10 students (40%) had low level of anxiety, 6
students (24%) average score, then, there are 9 students (36%) had high level anxiety.
So, the highest level of anxiety is low level. Then cognitive anxiety became the
dominant type of writing anxiety. The second type of writing anxiety is somatic
anxiety, and the last type of writing anxiety is avoidance behavior anxiety. It is found
that, the most type of anxiety faced by students is cognitive anxiety. The most causes of
students writing anxiety are language difficulties, lack of topical knowledge and low
self-confidence