ENGLISH STUDENTS' STRATEGIES IN OVERCOMING THEIR ANXIETY IN WRITING RESEARCH PROPOSAL
PUTRI DANELA JINGGA, Reg. 18 301 040 57 entitled: “ENGLISH STUDENTS’ STRATEGIES IN OVERCOMING THEIR ANXIETY IN WRITING RESEARCH PROPOSAL”, English Teaching Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Islamic University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research based on the anxiety experienced by the final semester students English Teaching Department in writing research proposals on the campus of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. This research aims to find out and describe what strategies English students of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar use in overcoming the anxiety they experience when writing research proposals. Type of this research is quantitative descriptive research. Respondents of this study were 7th, 9th and 11th semester students who were writing research proposals totalling 48 people. Respondents in this study were taken using the total sampling technique, because the number of respondents was less than 100 people, (Sugiyono, 2004: 124). Data collection in this study was carried out by distributing closed questionnaires. The instrument used to obtain data is based on a questionnaire grid about the strategies used to overcome anxiety in writing according to several experts (Kondo & Ling, 2004, Asrori, 2021 and Yasin in Ariska, 2019), which totals 64 statement items. The questionnaire had previously been validated by 2 validators with the results of the validation test of this instrument in general being 0.76785 (very high). After that, the questionnaire was distributed directly by the researcher using paper leaflets to the research respondents to be filled in. The results of data from respondents were analysed according to the theory (Sugiyono, 2012: 137), namely using Descriptive Analysis. The results of this study show that there are seven strategies used by students to overcome their anxiety in writing research proposal, such as: preparation, relaxation, positive thinking, peer seeking, resignation, reading book and being diligent. When viewed from each aspect of the strategy, categories students' strategies in overcoming anxiety when writing a research proposal are as follows: in the aspect of preparation, students' strategy lies in the excellent category (83.90%), in the aspect of relaxation, students' strategy lies in the good category (72.8%), in the aspect of positive thinking, students' strategy lies in the good category (79.3%), in the aspect of peer seeking, students' strategy lies in the good category (77.1%), in the aspect of resignation, students' strategy lies in the good category (61.2%), in the aspect of reading books, students' strategy lies in the good category (62.7%), in the aspect of being diligent, students' strategy lies in the excellent category with a percentage of (81.4%).