An Analysis Of Speaking Problems Encountered By The Second Semester Students At English Study Program Of Fkip Universitas Islam Riau

Nurani, Isnania (2019) An Analysis Of Speaking Problems Encountered By The Second Semester Students At English Study Program Of Fkip Universitas Islam Riau. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out speaking problems which are encountered by the second semester students at English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Islam Riau. The researcher believes that speaking skill is considered as one of the most important skills to be acquired by language learners, yet it is inseparable from some problems that may appear. This research was conducted by using qualitative design, under the qualitative descriptive method. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire and interview as the instrument. The questionnaires were distributed to 17 students of the second semester, while four out of them were interviewed to assure their responses towards 30 statements in the questionnaire. Moreover, the questionnaire comprised statements that based on two kinds of speaking problems, namely linguistics and psychological problems. From two speaking problems, it was found that the second semester students at English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Islam Riau faced both problems. The prominent linguistics problems encountered them was lack of vocabulary, due to their difficulty in choosing appropriate vocabulary to be used. Meanwhile, the psychological problems that prominently encountered the students was low of selfesteem, which stated that the students tended to feel they were failures, because their speaking skill have not improved as they expected due to linguistics problems which encountered them at the same time.

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