18 social decision making. While people are developing their speaking
skills in front of public, they are also maintaining their relationships with others. Next, the knowledge of speaking in front of public
develops skills in promoting and defending ideas. The acceptance of the audience becomes the essential matter for the speaker when they
are to present their thought in front of public. The speaker cannot neglect their audience
‟s presence by not making the reasonable judgment and decisions obvious to listener who might not be
familiar with what are being presented. Both the listener and speaker are supposed to have the same concept of what are being presented
so that the presentation might produce the beneficial result for both of them.
5. The Role of Self-Confidence for Developing Speaking Skills
The development of speaking confidence is necessary for the improvement of speaking skills Goel, 2012. Self-confidence is as
positive attitude towards one‟s self-concept Goel, 2012. Therefore, the attitude is an important thing that might allow people to have
positive perception toward themselves and the ability that people have.
To practice speaking in a good English, learners are required to develop their speaking confidence by developing learning
strategies to practice how to speak English. They will obtain more PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
19 confidence in speaking English if only they maintain the learning
strategies that work effectively for their learning so that the significant progress of an improvement can be achieved as their
learning goals Nunan, 1999. The learners might feel unconfident when they are to present
their thought or idea in front of public. This problem of nervousness might be the problem faced by the learners particularly when they
have to practice speaking in English. Thus, the development of self- confidence is needed in order to improve their speaking ability. More
practices of speaking English in front of the public will arise learner
s‟ self-confidence as according to Goel 2012, confidence is learned through process. In addition, the process that encourages the
students to speak in front of people will maximize the student‟s
speaking skill and their self-confidence as well.
6. The Significance of Speaking for the Personal Success
Reading and listening are two language skills that are considered as receptive skills in language learning and use. Along
with these skills, writing and speaking are the other two receptive skills which are necessary to be integrated in the development of
effective communication. Of all the macro English skills, speaking is the most important skill required for communication Zaremba,
2006, as cited in Procedia Social and Behavioural Science, 2010. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
20 The effective speaking will result in the achievements in ceremonial
speaking activities, job training activities, job interviews and the other business matters that require good speaking skill Osborn,
Osborn, Osborn, 2008. The fact that the students have limited chances to develop the speaking skills and limited exposure to
English speakers that can arise the development of speaking development are also presented by Zhang 2009 as cited in Procedia
Social and Behavioural Science 2010. Thus, the teacher or even the educational institution, in this case, is required to prepare the activity
in order to strengthen students‟ speaking competence because if there is only limited practice, they will not develop the competence
as well.
7. Speaking Problems Encountered by EFL Students
EFL students possibly find problems wherever they are to develop the speaking skills. Tuan and Mai 2015 present the
speaking problems faced by EFL students in their speaking class. They propose inhibition, lack of topical knowledge, low or uneven
participation and mother tongue use as the factors affecting one‟s speaking performance. The problem of inhibition is closely related to
the feeling of worry of making mistakes and fearful of criticism. In addition, students are shy of the attention that their speeches attract.
Littlewood 2007 as cited in Tuan and Mai 2015 asserts that a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
