Abstract :
This study investigated speech disfluency of English students’ presentation. The
purpose of this study was to describe the type of speech disfluency in their
presentation based on theory of by Shriberg (1994) modified by Bailoor (2015)
and to understand the factors which occur in the student’s presentation based on
theory of Bortfeld, et al (2001). This study was qualitative research method with
the class of 2015 students as a research sample in Universitas Teknokrat
Indonesia. There were 8 students taken as a research sample selected through
sample random sampling technique. The data were collected by reading the
presentation in class. The researcher found four type of speech disfluency in
students’ presentation. Those types are filled pause, unfilled pause, repetition and
revision. The writer also found the factors why students do speech disfluency. The
first factor is processing load that make students seemed to think the words or
utterances they were going to say. And the second reason is because of external
factor that is using tools for their presentation. In addition, the result of the
analysis shows that the most speech disfluency made by students of English
Education Program is filled pause.