Undergraduate Students' Reading Anxiety In An Emi- Based Program

Abstract

Currently, many Indonesia higher education or universities use English as a medium for instruction, usually, this university has a special program called the international program. In other words, international program students are often exposed to English, so it is possible for those who use EMI to feel anxiety, one of which is anxiety in reading. This study was conducted to find out what aspects influence the learners’ anxiety in reading English. Data were gathered by conducting the FLRAS (foreign language reading anxiety scale) questionnaires, adapted from Saito 1999 and there are 20 items with one domain feeling about reading English. The respondents are the international communication science students program batch 2020, consisting with 45 students. The result of this study yields aspects that affect students’ reading anxiety are uncommon script and writing system and unfamiliar cultural background. The highest score revealed X8 with mean (M=2.925) and standard deviation (SD=1.022) hence the lowest score presented in X15 with mean (M=2.0) and standard deviation (SD=0.905).