A STUDY ON STUDENT’S ENGLISH SPEAKING PROBLEMS IN SPEAKING PERFORMANCE
Abstract: This research focuses on student’s English
speaking problems and the aim of this research is to find out the most
dominant problem in speaking performance faced by the third semester students
of English Education
Study Program of
FKIP Tanjungpura University Pontianak in
their speaking performance.
The research method
used in this
research is the descriptive method.
The writer uses
questionnaire and video
recording as the
tools of data collection. From
the questionnaire findings,
psychological problems is
the most dominant problem faced by the third semester
students of English Education Study Program of FKIP Tanjungpura University
Pontianak with mean
percentage 20.70%; lack
of self-confidence 20.11% and
anxiety 21.27%. It is followed
by linguistic problems
with mean percentage 19.53%; grammar
22.16%, vocabulary 20.19%, and
pronunciation 16.25%. In conclusion, psychological problems is the
most dominant problem faced by the third semester students of English Education
Study Program of FKIP Tanjungpura University Pontianak.
Author: Dea Aries Fitriani,
Rahayu Apriliaswati, Wardah
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150138
