A SURVEY ON SPEAKING PROBLEMS FACED BY THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS RIAU

Abstract

Abstract: This research is aimed at finding speaking problems faced by the second year students of English Department of Universitas Riau. This research is a descriptive quantitative with descriptive survey approach. To find the problems in speaking of the students, there was a questionnaire used for collecting the data. The questionnaire was adapted from Verapornvanichkul (2011). The survey consists of two aspect; linguistic problems (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation), and psychological problems (anxiety, shyness, lack of confidence and lack of motivation). The sample of this research was all of the second year students of English Department of Universitas Riau that consist of 108 students. The questionnaire was accessed by the students online via google forms. The questionnaire of this research was presented using 5 point Likert-scale start from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The result showed that every student encounter each problems of speaking according to the aspect of linguistics and psychological. The mostly faced speaking problem in linguistic aspect is pronunciation (383 point) and anxiety as the psychological problem (375 point). The lowest point of the problem is motivation (259 point).
Key Words: Survey, Speaking, Speaking Problems