Factors Causing EFL Students' Writing Anxiety

Abstract

Writing is an activity or process to express ideas or opinion. One of the factors that affect the quality of writing is the anxiety factor. If the student suffered writing anxiety, it will affect the quality of writing and academic achievement. This research was aimed to describe the factors causing EFL students’ writing anxiety in English Teaching Department UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The participants were 57 students in the fourth semester students of the English Teaching Department UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar registered in 2021/2022 academic year. The design of the research was descriptive quantitative research. In conducting the research, the instrument was questionnaire which used several theories compiled by several experts. The findings of this research showed that there are several factors causing EFL students’ writing anxiety which found in this research, such as: fear of the test factor (19,8), insufficient writing practice (19,59), instructional practice (15,15%), linguistic difficulty (14,86%), fear of negative evaluation factors (11,06), students personal emotions (10, 25 %) and topic choice (9,29%). In addition, there are several factors which didn’t found in this research, such as: lectures attitude and time pressure.