STUDENT’S ANXIETY IN FACING THESIS EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

Thesis examination is an important event for university students to get bachelor degree. The students at the last semester who are going to face thesis examination are the students who get more pressure, because they have a lot of thing to do before graduate. Moreover the anxiety usually appears before and during the examination. Therefore, the researcher tried to investigate about student’s anxiety in facing thesis examination. This study aims to dig out about the factors cause student’s anxiety in facing thesis examination and the strategies used by students to overcome the anxiety. This research used qualitative research as the research design and interview as the method, because the researcher wants to get information about last student’s anxiety experience in facing final examination (thesis examination). The subjects of the research consisted of three students at the last semester of ELED in UMM. The researcher found that there were several factors that cause students anxiety in facing thesis examination such as lack of preparation, fear of failure, unexpected question from the examiners and negative thoughts. Furthermore, there were also several strategies used by students to overcome the examination anxiety especially thesis examination. Those strategies divided into three points such as: 1. The important point for preparing thesis examination such as: mastering thesis content, practice to deliver or present thesis content, praying and having support from family and friends. 2. How students deal with the anxiety during examination such as: take a deep breath, playing with an object that can helps to calm down for example pan, take a minute for relaxing. 3. Most effective way for students to overcome with the anxiety such as: controlling thoughts to think positively, avoid much attention to something that can increase anxiety, and also doing well preparation and praying.