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THE CORRELATION AMONG TEACHER’S NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT, STUDENTS’ ANXIETY, AND STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF FKIP SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY IN LEARNING ENGLISH
In learning English as foreign language, it cannot be separated from several factors that influence the learning process. Those can be internal and external factors. Teacher’s negative reinforcement and students’ anxiety are one of the external and internal factors which influence the performance of the students in learning English. The present study aimed to know whether there was any significant correlation between teacher’s negative reinforcement and students’ achievement; whether there was any significant correlation between students’ anxiety and students’ achievement; and whether there was any significant correlation between predictor variables (teacher’s negative reinforcement and students’ anxiety) and criterion variable (students’ achievement) in learning English. The instruments used in this study were the Teachers’ Negative Reinforcement Questionnaire, FLCAS, and the students’ English score documentation. The research findings indicated that; (a) there was statistically no significant correlation between teacher’s negative reinforcement and students’ achievement in learning English, (b) there was statistically no significant correlation between students’ anxiety and students’ achievement in learning English, and (3) there was statistically a significant correlation between predictor variables (teacher’s negative reinforcement and students’ anxiety) and criterion variable (students’ achievement) in learning English. It also highlighted that the category of teacher’s negative reinforcement of Social Science Department students of FKIP Sriwijaya University was in low category, the level of anxiety of the students in learning English was mildly anxious, and the students’ achievement was in the good level. Keywords: Teacher’s Negative Reinforcement, Students’ Anxiety, Students’ Achievement
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