Are Girls More Anxious Than Boys? The Analysis of Writing Anxiety on Writing Achievement

It has been said that writing is a difficult skill to acquire because it involves not just language but also personality traits (age) and emotional aspects (writing anxiety).Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare writing performance and writing anxiety across gender.This study also examined the correlation patterns between age, writing anxiety, and writing achievement.Factors that affect most on writing achievement most are also highlighted.As many as 83 EFL students participated in the current study.They were enrolled in an essay writing course.An independent sample t-test, Pearson-product moment, and ANCOVA analysis were employed to answer the research questions.The results demonstrated a considerable gap between males' and females' writing abilities.Despite the two groups' high anxiety levels, there is no significant difference in their writing anxiety.The results also revealed that writing performance among students is substantially connected with gender but not writing anxiety.The third finding showed that gender significantly impacts students' writing achievement more than anxiety.The implications of this study lay in the need for teachers to find suitable instructions for both male and female students and create non-threatening classrooms to optimize the students' writing performance.