STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL SPEAKING PROBLEMS AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF LINGUISTIC MAJOR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 PURWOKERTO, BANYUMAS REGENCY

Siti, Khapsoh (2020) STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL SPEAKING PROBLEMS AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF LINGUISTIC MAJOR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 PURWOKERTO, BANYUMAS REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, IAIN Purwokerto.

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Abstract

This study aims to find out psychological speaking problems that mostly faced by students and the causes of the problems. Psychological speaking problems are the difficulties based on psychological factors that hinder students from practicing their speaking in English class. Some psychological speaking problems are anxiety, fear of mistakes, lack of confidence, lack of motivation and shyness. Based on the preliminary observation was conducted by the researcher, psychological speaking problems were also experienced by students at the eleventh grade of linguistic major of Senior High School 2 Purwokerto which they still have a big fear for expressing their English skill through speaking. It was interesting to be learned and ascertained further regarding psychological speaking problems faced by students in the linguistic major because students in this major should already have a better communication skill (speaking) than the others and they have been studying English for a long time as well. This study was classified as qualitative and descriptive. Data were obtained through questionnaire, in-depth interview, observation and documentation. Questionnaire was designed by giving 5 questions to 34 students. Meanwhile, in-depth interview was addressed to 5 five students for discussing students’ psychological speaking problems further. Furthermore, the data were analysed through some steps among data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. Regarding data verification testing, triangulation technique was applied in this study which the data were collected through questionnaire interview then checked by data obtained from in-depth interview and observation. Two findings were required in this research. The first, most students revealed that they have psychological speaking problems which fear of mistakes took the first and become the most frequent problem (91%), lack of confidence was the second (76%), continued by anxiety (65%), shyness (47%), and lack of motivation (32%). The second, there were two causes of students’ psychological speaking problems including linguistic and non-linguistic factors. The most frequent causes of linguistic factors involved lack of vocabulary, lack of grammar mastery, and low pronunciation ability, while non-linguistic factors included anxiety (nervousness), fear of mistakes, fear of negative evaluation, lack of interested and shyness.

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