Factors that Influence SMK Sanjaya Pakem Students’ Feelings in

21 data. Both of the data collected helped the researcher to identify the factors influenced to the students’ feelings to speak English. Based on the interview data, the students assumed that there were some factors influenced to their feelings to speak English. One of the factors was environment. The environment of the students influenced them to build their feelings in speaking English. One of the students confirmed that there was no appropriate partner to speak English became the factors hampered him to speak English. The student wanted to speak English, but heshe did not have a partner to hold an English conversation. Hence, that student chose not to speak English in the class. The other factor was because of the class situation did not encourage the students to be able to speak English. As the researcher had explained in the introduction that English was used based on the situation. English class was not effective enough to help the students to speak English because the students were more comfortable using Bahasa Indonesia or Javanese language. The English teacher did not has the specific rules to make the students accustomed with English in the speaking sphere. Then, the teacher also did not build the comfortable environment by speaking or explaining the materials in Bahasa Indonesia even Javanese language. The next finding was the researcher also identified that culture also became the factor influencing the students’ feelings. Culture that existed at school made the students felt shy or fear. A student in the interview section claimed that he was not confident to speak English because his classmates yelled at him. The gibes made him felt unconfident to speak English. He was judged arrogant when he spoke 22 English outside the class. This culture also existed in the students’ environment. Most of the students at that school judged that the English users were pedantic because they spoke in foreign language. This condition influenced the students’ mental to speak in foreign language such as English. Based on the interview, the students voiced that they practiced to speak English rarely. The students confirmed that they just practiced to speak English when it was needed. Actually, it contended with the result of the question number 1 one in the questionnaire. In the questionnaire, the students answered that English was really important. There were 51.85 of the students who agreed of this statement. Unfortunately, it was not supported by the practice activity in the class or outside the class. They did less practice but they expected to have good English skills . Then, all of it influenced the students’ self-confidence. All of the findings in this research really supported all of the theory. Feelings really played the important role in the speaking. Someone could speak better than others because heshe enjoyed their performance. Boekaerts 1993 and Oatly Nundy 1996 as cited by Hammond et al. 2003 mind in their journal that students’ performance can be more successfully when they are happy and excited about the matter p. 90. The researcher argued that if the students enjoyed in the English class, then the situation around them was friendly, they could improve their English speaking skill. They could use games or role-play which were able to support them in speaking English. 23

CHAPTER 3 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter consists of the conclusions and the recommendations. In the first section, the researcher intends to conclude the findings of this research. In the second section, the researcher presents some recommendations related to this research.

3.1 Conclusions

This section was aimed to summarize the major findings in this research. The research focused on the feelings of SMK Sanjaya Pakem students about speaking English and also the factors influenced to the students’ feelings in speaking English. This research intended to identify all of the students ’ feelings in speaking English and also kind of factors influenced to their feelings in speaking English. The researcher identified that most of the students in SMK Sanjaya Pakem were still uncomfortable when they spoke in English. The big problem was caused by the environment, culture, and also themselves as individual. The feelings that existed around them were fear and shyness. Most of the students felt fear and shy to speak English. The main problems were they were not confident and also fear of making some mistakes in speaking English. The fear and shyness of the students could be seen in English class 24 atmosphere. The students only used English when the teacher asked them to speak English. Some of the students still answered the question in Bahasa Indonesia. In the English class, the students often used Bahasa Indonesia even Javanese language to communicate with their classmates. Some of them still thought that English is one of the hard subjects whereas we knew that in every grade of education, English was one of the compulsory subjects that would be tested in the National Examination. Another finding was about the factors that influenced the students’ feelings to speak English. The atmosphere around them became one of the factors. The students had limited support such as the partner in speaking English. They stated that sometimes the English teacher used Bahasa Indonesia during the teaching and learning process. When the teacher used English, unfortunately, they could not understand about the teacher’s clues or information. They had difficulties in listening to the speaker who spoke English especially someone who was able to spoke English fluently. The low supporting condition created fear or shy feelings when they were required to speak English. The culture also turned out to be one of the factors that guided the students’ feelings in learning. Sometimes, most of the students still thought that someone who spoke in English was arrogant. This occurred because they were not accustomed to speak English in the class and outside the class. The situation formed the way of thinking that when someone spoke English, heshe would be judged as an “arrogant” person.