Students’ Writing Apprehension in Research Background Development

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200427.034How to use a DOI?

Keywords

writing skills, writing apprehension

Abstract

in higher educational context or universities in Indonesia, most EFL students still find difficulties to write the ideas in written form, especially in writing the background section of an academic article. There are a lot of problems occured when they are writing an academic article. On of the problems is writing apprehension which comes up with various types. Therefore, the researcher conducted this study by interviewing 10 university students of State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya dealing investigating the types of writing apprehension. The analysis proves that there are 3 types of writing apprehension including low, medium and high apprehension. The three types show the participants responses are varied due to different perception, and also most of the students feel difficult to construct the theme in writing the academic article background. This study offers ways on how to overcome writing apprehension for university students by knowing and understanding the types and factors which cause it.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hilda Izzati Madjid
AU  - Achmad Nafal Firdaus Amru
AU  - Renaldi Bimantoro
AU  - Dandy Azhar Ramadhan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - Students’ Writing Apprehension in Research Background Development
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 170
EP  - 172
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200427.034
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200427.034
ID  - Madjid2020
ER  -