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2. Students’ low participation and low motivation in speaking activities
The characteristics of successful activity, namely learners talk a lot, participation is needed, learners get chance to speak, high motivation, support the
speaking activity to be successful Ur, 1996, p. 120. Students who learn to speak in English can express what they want to say related to the material. They also can
understand what their friend said. From the questionnaire results and the interview, the researcher found out that
there were some students who had low participation in speaking activities. This problem was supported by the data and the clarification from questionnaire results
and interview. In statement 3, “My students participate actively when there is a
speaking English activity in the classroom”, three people agreed and two people
disagreed. There were some students who were really active in the class, while the others were not.
The participants said that they needed to make sure that all of their students participated well in the speaking activities, such as, reading aloud, games and so on.
Participant 4 said: They more active when there was an activity, when there was a speaking
activity they participate actively even their grammar are not perfect. For example, they have to make dialogue and then they practice in front of the
class, they still want to do it.
One of the participants also said that sometimes the students participated actively whenever it was about reward; for example, they got more points if they joined the
speaking activity. On the other hand, participant 2 said that their students prefer to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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students only read the material but still did not focus on the speaking skill improvement.
In statement 5, “My students have high motivation to learn English together with their friends in the classroom.
” According to Ur 1996, p. 120, “classroom activities that develop student
s’ ability to express themselves through speech would therefore seem an important co
mponent of a language course”. Students might feel bored with the activities run in the classroom, most of them felt sleepy when the
activities running and it might decrease their motivation to learn speaking. In this case, three people agreed and two people disagreed. the participants
who agreed said that the students had high motivation only when they had group discussion or other learning processes, there was a tendency that the students had low
motivation when they learned individually. Participant 1 said: If they were speaking English together with their friend in group work, they
have high motivation. But when it comes to individual task, they tend to have low motivation. In other words, it does not matter if it is wrong as long as they
did not do the task individually.
3. The use of mother tongue in speaking activities
Based on the participants’ experiences as English practice teacher, most of the students used native language when they were in speaking activities. This problem
was supported by the data and the clarification from questionnaire results and interview. In statement 2, “My students have more time in speaking English rather
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