Speaking ability is the most important in evaluating students’ practical language used. Students at school need to practice and interact more in English. One of the ways to improve their speaking ability is to join an English community which is one of the best places to improve students’ English ability by providing sufficient learning exposure that focuses on practice and improving student…
In English classroom interaction, students’ participation is a very important factor that presents the success of the learning process. However, sometimes teachers have one problem for getting students' responses in classroom interaction due to students being reluctant to speak English. This case study aimed to find factors that cause students’ reluctance to speak English and English teache…
Extensive reading is one of the ways students can learn a language. It is believed that giving students access to books that they can read extensively out of their own volition can improve their language skills. This thesis aims to explore the effects of exposure to extensive reading on students’ writing skills. The participants in this study are marginal students in Sungai Rengas. Tutored by…
Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF) is type of negative feedback that holds the important roles on students’ speaking improvement. This study aimed to examine the impact of teachers’ Oral Corrective Feedback towards student speaking anxiety and its causes. This study was conducted at Kampung Inggris Tempirai,PALI. There were 40 participants of Senior High School participating in this study. To a…
This study examined the relationship between students’ personality types and speaking performance. This study had seventy-three 7th-semester students of English Education Study Program of Sriwijaya University as the participants. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised which is abbreviated as EPQR-A was used to collect the data. In addition to this, the data were also from the speaking test…
Speaking skill is one of the most important skills for human daily life, without the ability to speak, humans will find it difficult to interact with others, especially for the future of students, where students are required to be able to speak many languages, one of which is English. English as an international language. This study aims to see whether there is speaking anxiety in all MAN Insan…
This study analyzed students’ mistakes in translating idioms made by the 4th Semester Students of English Education Study Program at Sriwijaya University. The goal of this research is to analyze the mistakes that students make when translating idioms and to determine the cause of the mistakes. The participants of this study were 77 of 4th-semester students of English Education Study Program a…