Institusion
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
Author
DAMANDA, JUAN FERARI
Elfiza, Rona
Agust, Satria
Subject
420. Bahasa Inggris
Datestamp
2025-02-11 06:26:12
Abstract :
This research is focuses on college students' problems in speaking English and the
objective of this research is to identify speaking problems faced by fifth semester
English language education study program at Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji.
The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method, The
researcher uses questionnaire and interview as the tools data collection. From the
the questionnaire findings College student in psychological aspect was got 50% in
they are worried when speaking without preparation and out of topic and also that
college students got 60% of them to afraid of making mistake while speaking
English. From the language aspect Researcher found that from 30 college student
that fill in the questionnaire almost 53,3% of the college students? that they are
have a problem to pronounce the word correctly. Beside that, there were 16
college students? or 53,3% have a struggle to remember English vocabulary and
have a limited vocabulary. In conclusion the psychological problem and language
problem was affect college students? in speaking English. From psychological
problem, they were afraid of making mistake,anxiety and shyness, lack of
confidence. From language problem aspect, most of college students? they were
have limited vocabulary and did not master the grammar become the most
problem when they want to speaking English.