ABSTRACT

All foreign English learners have their own motivation. Sometimes many of them experience anxiety and fear toward second language (L2) learning. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which contribute toward the Foreign Language (FL) anxiety and motivation and to seek the correlation among those variables. The participants of this study were the second year of graduate students in the English Education Department, Yogyakarta State University. There were 26 students who participated in this study. The data of the research were gathered through questionnaires of motivation [24] and Foreign Language Anxiety Classroom Scales (FLACS) [10]. The data were analyzed statistically using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The result indicates that there is a significant and negative correlation between foreign language anxiety and motivation. The students’ motivation factors are a significant predictor of foreign language anxiety.