Effectiveness of the CIPPA instruction model in reducing students’ anxiety in English writing classes

Abstract

This research study entitled “Effectiveness of the CIPPA Instruction Model in Reducing Students’ Anxiety in English Writing Classes” is intended to investigate the students’ anxiety in English Writing class. Samples of the study were 44 students in Matthayomsueksa 5 Class 1 at Soem Ngam Witthayakhom School in Lampang province. Instruments for data collection were an anxiety scale, a questionnaire and an interview schedule. In analyzing the data which included means, standard deviations and t-test scores from anxiety scale and the questionnaire, the program SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science for Windows) was operated. Meanwhile, Content Analysis was used to examine the data from the interviews. The results of the study reveal that after the CIPPA based learning activities, the students’ anxiety in English writing class reduced significantly at a statistical level of.05. It was also found that the anxiety in relation to the students themselves reduced the most, followed by the anxiety regarding the teacher and the anxiety in respect to the students’ classmates respectively. In addition, collectively, the students’ satisfaction with the CIPPA based learning activities were at a high level. More to the point, to put the students’ satisfaction in order from highest to lowest, they were pleased with learning contents, assessment and evaluation, learning materials and resources, and teaching and learning activities respectively. To conclude, the CIPPA based activities did reduce the students’ anxiety in English writing classes.