AN INVESTIGATION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS PERFORMANCE OF INTROVERT STUDENTS IN SPEAKING CLASS

Ferizka Emirza,Mohamad Sahril

doi:10.32832/english.v15i1.4558

Abstract

This research aims to know the personality (introvert) affects the students on their speaking English performance and influences the students in their communication,and to know the effort of the introvert students to handle the personality problem inspeaking English performance. In order to collect the data, observation,questionnaire and interview was three research instrument used.The participant of this research was a 26 students in the second semester of EnglishEducation Department, Ibn Khaldun University Bogor. Finally for the result of thisresearch revealed that for the score was 2.23 in average of students speakingperformance, it means fair slightly good. This statement was strengthened with thedata analysis that the most affecting factors from psychological aspects towardsintrovert students in speaking skill were depressed (92%). From the linguisticsfactors, eight of thirteen students said vocabulary and grammar was the commonproblem. And six of thirteen students experienced difficulties in pronunciation.Introvert students used a various strategies to overcome their public speakingproblems, several students try to improving their speak ability by read a book andrecord it, sing an English song, have a conversation every day, by join thecommunity outside of the university, help their brother/sister do their homework,talk with the foreigner, watch YouTube.

Highlights

Speaking is key to communication, producing and processing some information
Students speaking performance still far from the standard for the average of students speaking, the scores was 2.23 it means fair slightly good with and the average was 1.30 which means bad tend to fair in managing the time limit
This statement was strengthened with the data of analysis that the most affecting factors towards introvert students in speaking skill were depressed (92%)

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Introduction

Speaking is key to communication, producing and processing some information. People can express their idea, thoughts, feelings and opinions to others. From speaking people can express their idea, thoughts, feelings and opinions to others It means learning English is learn about the structure of language itself, and learn about how to make English as a tool to communicate with others; students need more practice to speak English properly. Most students can’t speak English properly because to speak in English is not easy for them, especially perform in front of the class, according to Harmer (2007), Students are often reluctant to speak because they are shy and are not predisposed to expressing themselves in front of other people, especially when they are being asked to give personal information or opinions. According to Brown (1994), psychological and personality factors such as self-esteem, anxiety, and motivation are urgent

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