EFL STUDENTS' ANXIETY IN WRITING SCIENTIFIC PAPER

This research mainly attempts to find out (1). the types of students’ anxiety in writing scientific paper and (2). the process of students’ scientific writing, and (3). the reasons why students experienced the writing anxiety. The research design used is qualitative research. The data are collected by using a questionnaire namely SLWAI (Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory) to get the types of writing anxiety and interview to explore the process of students’ scientific writing and the reasons of students’ writing anxiety. The finding shows that Avoidance Anxiety is appeared as the most dominant type of writing anxiety occurred among students. Meanwhile the least type of writing anxiety that occurred among the students is Somatic Anxiety. In writing the scientific paper, the students run five stages of writing include pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. The reasons of students’ writing anxiety are resulted from Lack of Topic Interest, Teacher’s Teaching Style, Plagiarism Threat, High Amount of Assignments, Grammar and Vocabulary Insecurity, Pressure of Perfect Writing, and Lack of Practice. Related to the issues of writing anxiety, this study also further suggests that students necessarily need to be well-trained about composing a scientific paper properly in order to minimize the writing anxiety experience.