The Influence of the Students’ Anxiety to the Students’ English Achievement on the Eighth Grade Students of Al-Islamiyah Islamic junior high school of Balorejo in the Academic Year of 2012/2013

Abstract

This research is concerned primarily at finding out whether there is positive and significant influence of two variables or not. The independent variable of this research is the students’ anxiety, which is symbolized by X, while the dependent variable is the students’ English achievement, which is symbolized by Y. The result of the inferential analysis shows that there is a positive and significant influence of the students’ anxiety toward their English achievement, with the correlation coefficient of 0,366. It was compared with   with the respondent of 53 with the level of significance 5% was 0,279. It means that  was higher than  so, the null hypothesis was rejected and the working one was accepted. Thus, it can be concluded that there was a positive and significant influence of the students’ anxiety to the students’ English achievement on the eighth grade students of Al-Islamiyah Islamic Junior High School in the academic  year 2012/2013.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Graphic Organizer, Writing Ability, Descriptive Text.