performances and support students to learn more effectively and actively. So, by having high self-confidence, students will give hard effort to achieve their
success. Brown 2001: 62 states that Learners’ belief that they indeed are fully
capable of accomplishing a task is at least partially a factor in their eventual success in attaining the task. As a teacher we should sustain students’ self-
confidence and make them belief on their abilities in achieving speaking skill in English.Anthony 2003: 5 states that one of the principle requisites for change
and a self-confidence personality is to satisfy your own need first its means by understanding and loving yourself.Anotherdefinition of self-confidence “What is
Self Confidence”, para. 3 centres on being assertive, on getting what you want. This is about standing up for yourself, about having the presence, the personal
power, if you like, to regard yourself as equal to others and to behave in a way that reflect this. Analysing the previous definitions above, it can be concluded that
self confidence is an attitude that is characterized by positive believe, the abilities to understand and loving yourself and being assertive.
B. Problem Identification
From the explanation of the background, there are several problems related to teaching speaking that can be identified. These problems involve: 1
Why is it important to teach speaking? ; 2 What difficulty do the students face to learn speaking subject? ; 3 Does self-confidence influence the students’ skill in
speaking?; 4 How can Community Language Learning help the students in achievingspeaking skill? ; 5 How can Situational Language Teaching help the
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students in achieving speaking skill? ; 6 How can the students with high self- confidence get better achievement in speaking skill than the students with low
self-confidence?
C. Problem Limitation
Questions arisen from problem identifications were limited to the problems which are supposed to influence students’ speaking skills; they are the
teaching methods Community Language Learning and Situational Language Teaching and students’ self-confidence.
D. Problem Statement
From the background of the study, problem identification, and problem limitation, there are three problems that are formulated:
1. Is there any difference in speaking competence between the students taught by Community Language Learning and Situational Language
Teaching? If there is difference, which groups of the students have a better achievement?
2. Is there any difference in speaking competence between the students with high self-confidence and the students with low self-confidence? If there
is difference, which groups of the students have a better achievement? 3. Is there any interaction between teaching methods and the students’ self-
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E. Objectives of the Study
In relevant with the problems that have been stated previously, the objectives of the study are to find out:
1. Whether or not Community Language Learning is more effective than Situational Language Teaching in teaching speaking in the
secondgradeof Nursing Department students of STIKES Bakti Tunas HusadaTasikmalayain the academic year of 20112012?
2. Whether the students with high self-confidence have better achievement in speaking than the students with low self-confidence?
3. Whether there is any interaction between teaching methods and the students’ self-confidence in teaching speaking?
F. Significance of the Study
