Kurniasih, Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Utari Praba Astuti, Nunung Suryati
The current study aimed at investigating the teachers’ strategies to alleviate students’ writing anxiety and their perception of the teachers’ strategies in online writing instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, the voices of teachers and students were considered by mapping out writing anxiety-reducing strategies and looking at students’ perceptions of the teachers’ strategies. This study employed a mixed-method design. The data were obtained from interviews with eight English teachers from several universities in Indonesia. Meanwhile, 274 students were given a questionnaire about their perception of the teachers’ strategies to alleviate students’ writing anxiety. The result of the data analysis showed that teachers have used some strategies, such as motivating the students to be confident, creating an enjoyable classroom, implementing self-select topics, implementing a writing process approach, implementing a combination of automated writing feedback tools, giving both oral and written teacher feedback, and assigning peer feedback. In addition, this study also affirms that students have a positive perception of the teachers’ strategies for alleviating online writing anxiety. It is suggested that future researchers working on similar topics investigate specific strategies implemented to alleviate students’ writing anxiety based on types of anxiety or their levels of anxiety. © 2023, The Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (PacCALL). All rights reserved.
ELT, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia English Education Department, Universitas Islam Malang, Indonesia; Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
