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Speaking I, Speaking II, Critical Listening and Speaking I, Critical Listening and Speaking II, and Public Speaking.
3. Perception
According to George and Jones 2005: p.105, “Perception is the process by which individuals select, organize, and interpret the input from their senses vision,
hearing, touch, smell and taste to give meaning and order to the world around them”. In this study, input from senses means what the students feel and see from their
experience in doing the Hot Seat activity in speaking classes. Therefore, perception is student’s opinion about their experience in doing Hot Seat activity.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents a review of theoretical writings which are related to the study matter. The theoretical description consists of the discussion on perception, Hot
Seat game in speaking class, and speaking anxiety.
A. Theoretical Description
This study is related to two theses which also discuss about the use of hot seat and the other one is about anxiety. Thus, the researcher will give the summaries of
both studies. According to the thesis written by Gonca Subaşı, the researcher investigate two potential sources of the Turkish learners’ English anxiety in oral
practice : 1 an individual student’s fear of negative evaluation, and 2 hisher self- perceived speaking ability. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the
effects of two psychological factors, the fear of negative evaluation and the self- perception of speaking ability in the target language. Another study which was
conducted in English Language Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, Frederika Rintakristy Yosephine 2012 focuses on finding the presence of speaking
anxiety through student’s perception and how to reduce the speaking anxiety experienced by students in Critical Listening and Speaking II class.
In this section, the researcher reviews the description of perception, speaking anxiety, and Hot Seat game in speaking class.
