A Case Study Of Students’ Ability To Speak In EFL Classroom

Lailatul Husna, Widya Juli Astria

Abstract


In the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language, the active participation of students in the classroom plays an important role in acquiring the target language. The participation can be seen from the students reply to the teachers or their peers’ questions and give comments. It means that they are able to express and clarify their intentions, thoughts and opinions which are essential to language acquisition. The aim of this research is to investigate and analyze the students’ Ability to speak in EFL classroom. The method of this research is qualitative. The data were collected through the observation and and interview. The result of the research showed that 40% of the students still got anxiety in speaking. The students could not develop their skill in speaking because of the limited of their vocabulary and their grammar mastery. It is expected that this research could be beneficial for English teacher, especially to English Foreign Language teacher and lecturer who teaches English in order to find out the students’ ability in performing their speaking performance

Keywords


Keywords: Speaking Ability, EFL students, EFL Classroom

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ariyanti, A. (2016). Psychological Factors Affecting EFL Students’ Speaking Performance. ASIAN TEFL Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.21462/asiantefl.v1i1.14

Bartlett, L., & Vavrus, F. (2017). Comparative Case Studies : An Innovative Approach Nordic Journal of Comparative and Comparative Case Studies : An Innovative Approach. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1(1).

Crowe Sarah, et al. (2011). BMC Medical Research Methodology. BMC Medical Research Methodology.

Drajati, N. A. (2018). Photovoice: Exploring the Role of Teacher’s Question for University Students’ Fluency in Speaking Class. JSSH (Jurnal Sains Sosial Dan Humaniora), 2(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.30595/jssh.v2i1.2160

Flyvbjerg, B., & Flyvbjerg, B. (2016). Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research. In Case Studies. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473915480.n40

Harrison, H., Birks, M., Franklin, R., & Mills, J. (2017). Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum : Qualitative Social Case Study Research : Foundations and Methodological Orientations. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research.

Lutviana, R. (2016). Speech Contest To Improve Students’ Fluency In Speaking. Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa Dan Sastra, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.21067/jibs.v3i2.1469

Macintyre, P. D., Burns, C., & Jessome, A. (2011). Ambivalence About Communicating in a Second Language: A Qualitative Study of French Immersion Students’ Willingness to Communicate. Modern Language Journal, 95(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2010.01141.x

MacIntyre, P. D., & Wang, L. (2021). Willingness to communicate in the L2 about meaningful photos: Application of the pyramid model of WTC. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688211004645

Maulana, A., Musthafa, I., & Hayati, T. N. (2020). The efficiency of teaching listening and speaking skills to develop students’ communicative competences. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2020.080310

Nurnalisa, N. (2020). The EFFECT OF USING SILENT WAY METHOD TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PERFORMANCE. ELT-Lectura, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.31849/elt-lectura.v7i2.4568

Oktavia, P., & Syahrul. (2021). “The Correlation Between Students’ Anxiety and Speaking Performance at The Second Grade In SMAN 1 Pantai Cermin Kabupaten Solok in Academic Years 2019/2020â€. FOSTER: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.24256/foster-jelt.v2i2.46

Riadil, I. G. (2020). A Study of Students’ Perception: Identifying EFL Learners’ Problems in Speaking Skill. IJELR: International Journal of Education, Language and Religion Copyright, 2(1).

Sheybani, M. (2019). The relationship between EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and their teacher immediacy attributes: A structural equation modelling. Cogent Psychology, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2019.1607051

Srinivas, P. R. (2019). The Importance of Speaking Skills in English Classrooms. Alford Council of International English & Literature Journal(ACIELJ), Vol 2(Issue 2).

Xin, Z. (2017). From communicative competence to communicative language teaching. International Journal of English Linguistics, 8(2).

Yeşilçınar, S. (2019). Using the flipped classroom to enhance adult EFL learners’ speaking skills. PASAA, 58.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.31004/edukatif.v3i5.957

Article Metrics

Abstract view : 1790 times
PDF - 488 times

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2021 Lailatul Husna, Widya Juli Astria

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.