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English Speaking: Shyness And Weakness In Speaking English

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WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH AMONG STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA

BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Speaking skill is one of the most important components that every student should conquer besides writing, reading and listening. Many students voice out their inability to speak or present freely in front of few bunches of students. They tend to have a ‘mental block’ against oral test but at the same time they may be good at other skills (Horwitz et al., 1986: 125). What stops them to do well in oral test? Why this willingness in speaking English become the main problem for them? In many cases, students’ shyness, feeling of nervous, stress and anxiety. Theorists and language researchers have discovered that these feelings of anxiety usually associated …show more content…

Development of English language at worldwide has increases the demand to acquire good communication skills. The need to mastery the English language in both written and spoken is very important in this century especially for the students who will be future professionals. However, some often express anxiety to speak English, shyness and nervous in speaking English. The many factors of WTC related to the individual difference (ID) such as personality, self-confidence, attitudes, and various statistical techniques which influence that behaviour. Some of them are really good in writing and reading comprehension but has the same problem that is to communicate in English, as well as their writings. What really create that limitation to some L2 learners? This study is to address that problem and to find its root. A few L2 learners feel intimidate by the language itself, thus reluctant to use it in their everyday interaction. Higher proficiency students occasionally ‘intimidate’ the lower proficiency students by their fluency in English and their remarks on the usage of ‘perfect’ English. This problem happens to most of the second language …show more content…

Oral test is basically public speaking and it is related to the speaking ability. The purpose of using interview as a data collection tool is that it can provide to the things cannot be directly observed, such as feelings, thoughts, intentions, or beliefs (Merriam, 1998: cited in Ohata, 2005:140). It also provides participants with opportunities to select, reconstruct, and reflect upon details of their experience within the specific context.

The main objective of this study is to explore the sources which contribute to the WTC in English among students of University of Malaya. Due to that, interviews are appropriate to understand the experiences of ideas about WTC because they allow clarifying and elaborating the points given when required. Individual interview is conducted in this study.

Individual

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