A STUDY OF STUDENTS PROBLEMS IN DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTIVITY AT SMA POMOSDA TANJUNGANOM NGANJUK

THESIS

By: YUN ARITA 04360183

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG OCTOBER 2008

A STUDY OF STUDENTS PROBLEMS IN DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTIVITY AT SMA POMOSDA TANJUNGANOM NGANJUK

THESIS

By: YUN ARITA

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG OCTOBER 2008

A STUDY OF STUDENTS PROBLEMS IN DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTIVITY AT SMA POMOSDA TANJUNGANOM NGANJUK

THESIS This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to Achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

By: YUN ARITA 04360183

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG OCTOBER 2008

This thesis written by Yun Arita was approved on October 24, 2008

By:

Advisor II,

Advisor I,

Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M. Si.

Drs. Jarum, M. Ed.

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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education on October 24, 2008

Approved by: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang Dean,

Drs. H. Fauzan, M.Pd

Examiners: 1. Drs. Hartono, M. Pd. 2. Drs. Soeparto, M. Pd. 3. Drs. Jarum, M. Ed. 4. Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M. Si.

Signatures: 1. 2. 3. 4.

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

Ya Allah tetapkanlah hati hamba pada agama-Mu yang lurus Jadikanlah hamba ahli dan ilmu kebaikan Amien..

Barang siapa yang ingin kesejahteraan dunia hendaklah dengan ilmu, barang siapa yang menginginkan ketentraman di akhirat hendaklah dengan ilmu, dan barang siapa yang menginginkan kedua-duanya hendaknya dengan ilmu pula. (Al-Hadits

DEDICATION: I dedicated this thesis to: My beloved father and mother, My little brother, My lovely husband My Air Force, Teachers and students of SMU POMOSDA, Lecturers and students of English department UMM English Department 04 And all my friends

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A STUDY OF STUDENTS PROBLEMS IN DAILY ENGLISH SPEAKING ACTIVITY AT SMA POMOSDA TANJUNGANOM NGANJUK ABSTRACT This research aimed at studying the students problems in daily English speaking activity at SMA POMOSDA Tanjunganom Nganjuk. This study tried to find the students problems, the causes, and the ways to cope with the problems in daily English speaking activity of this senior high school. This research was based on the fact that the students still have some problems in speaking English, although they have been encouraged to use English every day. This research was categorized as a descriptive research because the researcher wanted to describe the students problems in daily English speaking activity of the second grade students of SMA POMOSDA Tanjunganom Nganjuk. The population in this research was students in the second year of IPA and IPS, consisted of 112 students. The researcher took 25% from those students. The sampling technique used here was a simple random sampling. The research instruments applied were questionnaire and observation. These instruments were used to get the data of students problems in daily English speaking activity from different classes in the second year students. After giving and making questionnaire and observation, the researcher found that students of SMA POMOSDA Tanjunganom Nganjuk had many problems, such as: the students difficulty to make the sentence and difficulty to make the sentence with the correct structure. Students insufficient and difficulty to remember all of vocabularies used to communicate with others, students vernacular patois problem that gave bad effect of students pronunciation, intonation, accuracy, and fluency, and problem of punishment. The causes of students problems were because the students only had few vocabularies in their speaking and they seldom use all vocabulary in their speaking, the students only had few vocabularies and they had insufficient exercise to use the correct sentence, the students were not confident to speak with correct pronunciation, intonation, accuracy and fluency and vernacular patois which influenced their daily English speaking and students impinged regulation of language in the school. These show that students still have many problems of speaking English, although they used English in their daily activity. The students ways to cope with the students problems were the students doing more exercise and studied with the teacher and friends. The students used vocabulary in their daily communication, often did exercise with friends and studied from the book. The students learnt to pronounce the good word and studied from the book or dictionary, listened the record of native speaker, and learnt the right pronunciation and right spelling with the teacher. Finally, the students tried to increase their skill of speaking English. The Advisor I The Writer,

Drs. Jarum, M. Ed.

Yun Arita

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah, all praise be to Allah, the Merciful and Charitable. Because of His guidance, blessing and affection, the writer can finish this thesis. The writer would like to express her deepest gratitude to Drs. Jarum, M. Ed., her first advisor and Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M. Si., her second advisor, for their suggestions, invaluable guidance and advice during the consultation period, and their comments and corrections during the completion of this thesis. Her sincere gratitude and appreciation are also extended to the teachers and headmaster at SMA POMOSDA Tanjunganom Nganjuk who had given her the opportunity to conduct the research. Also the students who have participated in finishing the research. Finally, a special thank goes to her beloved mother (Kalim Masruroh), father (Syamsuddin), little brother (Muhib Faisal), and husband (Setio Budi) for their encouragement, love, care, and pray so that she can finish this thesis.

Malang, 22 October 2008

Yun Arita

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TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE .... i APPROVAL . ii LEGALIZATION .. iii MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iv ABSTRACT .. v ACKNOWLEDGMENT .... vi TABLE OF CONTENTS .. vii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.. 1 1.1 Background of the Study 1 1.2 Statement of the Problems ..... 4 1.3 Purpose of the Study .. 4 1.4 Significance of the Study ... 4 1.5 Scope and Limitation . 5 1.6 Definition of Key Terms .... 5 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE .... 7 2.1 Bilingual Students .. 7 2.2 Definition of Speaking ... 8 2.2.1 The Aspects of Speaking ... 9 2.2.2 Types of Activity to Promote Speaking Skill ... 9 2.3 Characteristics of a Successful Speaking Activity ... 11 2.4 Components of Speech Process ... 12 2.5 Strategies for Speaking 12 2.6 Structuring Speech ... 15 2.7 Problems of Speaking .. 18 2.8 The Ways to Cope with Speaking Problems .... 20 2.9 The ways for the teacher .. 20 2.10 Overview about SMA POMOSDA Tanjunganom Nganjuk .. 22 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 24 3.1 Research Design ... 24 3.2 Population and Sample . 24 3.3 Research instrument . 26 3.3.1 Questionnaire ... 26 3.3.2 Observation .. 26 3.4 Data Collection . 28 3.4.1 Giving questionnaire to the students .... 28 3.4.2 Doing observation .... 28 3.5 Data Analysis ... 28 3.5.1 The way to analyze questionnaire ... 28 3.5.2 The way to analyze observation .. 29 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION 30 4.1 Finding . 30 4.1.1 Students problems .. 30

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4.1.1.1 Students problems faced by the students from the students questionnaire 30 4.1.1.2 Students problems faced by the students from the students observation ....... 31 4.1.2 Causes of the problems ... 32 4.1.2.1 Causes of students problems from the studentsquestionnaire 32 4.1.2.2 Causes of students problems from the students observation ...... 35 4.1.3 Students ways to cope with the problems .. 36 4.1.3.1 Students ways to cope with the problems from the studentsquestionnaire ..... 36 4.1.3.2 Students ways to cope with the problems from the students observation ... 38 4.2 Discussion .... 39 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ..... 42 5.1 Conclusion .... 42 5.2 Suggestion ... 43 5.2.1 Suggestion for English teacher ... 43 5.2.2 Suggestion for students ... 44 5.2.3 Suggestion for further researcher 44 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 45 APPENDICES APPENDIX I .... 46 APPENDIX II ........... 53 APPENDIX III ..... 54 APPENDIX IV .......... 57

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