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B. Identification of the Problem
Problem and challenge for teacher clearly appear because students with different personality are in one class. There is a group with active and talkative
students and other group is the group of passive students who really love to keep silent when they are learning. The active students in speaking are named
by sanguine personality then the passives belong to phlegmatic personality. The related problems that can be identified to the sanguine personality
and the phlegmatic personality of students are such the example below: 1. The sanguine is extrovert person and the phlegmatic is the introvert person.
They may create gap in learning, 2. The sanguine has mostly a strong leadership and the phlegmatic tends to be
a follower, 3. The sanguine student is domineering speaker than the phlegmatic student,
4. The sanguine student likes speaking in less intensity and quantity than the phlegmatic student.
However, several problems between the sanguine students and the phlegmatic students were identified. The problems occur in teacher and learner
interactions. Now the writer just needs to specify them in order to be focus on the following point
C. Limitation of the Problem
Due to the broadness of the topic discussion as the problems have been identified above, this study will be limit on the area how sanguine and
phlegmatic type of personality is different and similar. Based on the theory, the sanguine students including their traits
generally have a potency to be better in speaking ability than the phlegmatic students with their special traits. To test the theory, the students with the
sanguine and the phlegmatic personality will be compared by their English speaking score which describe their competence in speaking.
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D. Formulation of the Problem
Based on the background and limitation of the problem that is about comparing the sanguine and the phlegmatic students to their English speaking
score, the research question of this ‘skripsi’ can be formulated as Do the sanguine students get better English speaking score than the
phlegmatic students in English speaking activity?
E. Objective of the Study