Weakness In Speaking English

WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH AMONG ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) STUDENTS AT A LOCAL UNIVERSITY

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction

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

The raised findings for the factors which cause the anxiety will hopefully help the students of University of Malaya to overcome their anxious and unwillingness feeling during speaking or converse in English and can perform well.

Scope and Limitations

This study focuses on the factors cause WTC in speaking English among students of University of Malaya and suggests few strategies that can be taken by these students to overcome their problems in speaking English. In investigating the factors for WTC in English, the limitations of this study is limited and focused only on students of University of Malaya. There are many other schools and students of an ESL learner that have the same problems. Therefore, the findings and discussions cannot be generalized for all the students of an ESL learners and institutions.

CHAPTER 2- REVIEW OF LITERATURE

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(1986). A suitable strategy must be used in order to capture the differences of the students. The research approach used for this study is qualitative study. How students experience anxiety in speaking English, what are the causes and how to overcome the anxiety was investigated using qualitative research strategy. This allows the researcher to understand the subjective world of human experience on speaking anxiety well.

3.1.2 Rationale of choosing Qualitative Study

Study on anxiety in speaking English has been done mostly in quantitative method (Price, 1991). A different approach for studying speaking anxiety is needed in order to gain deeper insight into the issue. Qualitative approach allows the researchers to get descriptive information on variables not easily accessed through empirical research and can provide a way to view phenomenon from the point of view (Price, 1991:101).

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