AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING EFL LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS (A Descriptive Qualitative Study at SMAN 09 Bengkulu)

SARI, YOPI SITA (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING EFL LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS (A Descriptive Qualitative Study at SMAN 09 Bengkulu). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This study is about students who have some problems speaking English. This study was carried out at SMAN 09 Bengkulu. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that affect the effectiveness of students in learning English skills. The design of this study used a qualitative descriptive method. The subjects of this study were students of SMAN 09 Bengkulu, class XI. Research data were collected using observation and indepth interviews. Observations were made by researchers with English subject teachers for eight meetings to observe students' English-speaking skills in class with four factors assessed: shyness, anxiety, confidence, and motivation with aspects of the assessment including very good, good, quite good, not good, and bad, while the interviews were conducted with 20 11th-grade students of SMAN 09 Bengkulu, from these 4 factors, 2 factors were most dominantly felt by students, namely shyness and lack of confidence. This is because these two factors influence each other and can even influence other factors on students. Most of the students admitted that they were afraid to speak because they could not pronounce it. Most of them are afraid of making mistakes, so they feel unable to try to speak English. English as a foreign language (EFL) for students is something new to learn and use in their environment, so it has many influences, such as psychological factors

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