THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ESP LEARNERS’ ANXIETY AND THEIR ENGLISH COURSE ACHIEVEMENT (MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS ISLAM MALANG)

Abstract

Abstract: Anxiety is a feeling of fear or worry that arises in a student because he/she is facing a certain situation in his/her English class. In other words, anxiety is a form of students emotion about feeling threatened by something, usually with an unclear threat object. It can be assumed that anxiety is one of the factors that influence the learning process, especially in student’s achievement. The researcher took samples from seventh-semester students of Management Department of Universitas Islam Malang because all of them had taken English courses. In this study, researcher used a quantitative approach with a correlation design. The instruments used in this study were FLCAS questionnaire and students' English course scores. The researcher also used IBM SPSS version 20 to analyze the data. As it seen in the data analysis, the Sig. (2-tailed) is ,005. It can be conclude that there is a significant correlation between achievement and anxiety. Significant correlation is accepted at the level of significance at 0.01, because the sig. (2-tailed) is ,005 (below 0.01). The data that has been analyzed shows that the correlation coefficient equaled r= -,499. From the results it is known that there is a negative correlation between ESP learners' anxiety and their English course achievement because the r value obtained is negative.

Keywords: Anxiety, Achievement, Correlation