Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Anxiety has long been considered one of the major factors affecting in EFL writing performance. The present study aims to investigate the anxiety in writing academic paper for graduate students and to investigate the ways how students deal with anxiety during writing academic paper. The participants in this study were 30 second-year students enrolled in thesis course in a university in Thailand. A questionnaire was employed in the study to collect the data and the SPSS program was used to analyze mean (x̅), and standard deviation (S.D.). On the whole, the results revealed that the factors causing anxiety were at the moderate level. The findings indicated that time constraints and sentence structure were the primary sources in causing anxiety for writing thesis as they were regarded in a very high level. The study also suggested the ways to deal with anxiety during writing thesis. This study offers some recommendations for further research studies in this field to gain more insights of factors causing anxiety in graduate setting.
Authors: Chatdecha, Chanika, Liangpanit, Chongrak
Institution: Khon Kaen University
Language: Thai
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219195322