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A STUDY ON THE ANXIETY OF THE LOW AND HIGH SPEAKING ACHIEVERS OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG Fahmi Arifin; Yahya Alaydrus; Eko Suhartoyo
Jurnal Penelitian, Pendidikan, dan Pembelajaran Vol. 15 No. 28 (2020): Jurnal Penelitian, Pendidikan, dan Pembelajaran
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Abstract: This current research focused on identifying the contributing factors of students’ anxiety and to describe the type of anxiety that faced by low and high speaking achievers. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The result of this research showed that both categorized students placed at “anxious” (low speaking achievers) and “mildly anxious” (high speaking achievers). It also gives a description that anxious students do not have a low score and mildly anxious students may not always have a good score. In this research, 2 anxious students are having a bit lower score from the other students, meanwhile 2 other students with mildly anxious having satisfactory score. The percentage of students’ response was also classed into three type of anxiety. 33.3% of students experienced communicative apprehension, whereas 30.3% feel anxious in test anxiety, and 36.4% of them were getting anxious in fear of negative evaluation. The last type of anxiety got the highest percentage. Keywords: anxiety, low speaking achiever, high speaking achiever 
THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED AND STRATEGIES USED BY THE STUDENTS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Yaumil Yaumil; Yahya Alaydrus; Dzul Fikri
Jurnal Penelitian, Pendidikan, dan Pembelajaran Vol. 15 No. 28 (2020): Jurnal Penelitian, Pendidikan, dan Pembelajaran
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Abstract: Descriptive text is a crucial text that must be learned by the students. This article aims at knowing the students’ difficulties in writing descriptive text and the strategies that used by the students  to overcome their difficulties in writing descriptive text. The population of this research was the second semester students of English Departemtn at University of Islam Malang. The participants consisted of 34 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire as the instrument that covered the difficulties and strategies in writing descriptive text. The finding of this research showed that the students’ biggest problems in writing descriptive text were lack of vocabulary, poor grammar knowledge, organizing idea, developing idea, and generic structure. To overcome these problems, there are some strategies used by the students in writing descriptive text included decide a topic before writing, use a dictionary to chek vocabulary, make an outline, revise a sentence, and share writing with one another.Key Words: Students’ Difficulties and Strategies, Writing, Descriptive Text