Background of the Study

the first speech about feminism. However, even if the speaker was a famous and powerful person, it did not guarantee the speech to be phenomenal in creating the changes in the status quo. In fact, the speech was forgotten by the people especially the people of Republic of China. Even until now they have not changed their One Child policy yet which very limits the women’s freedom on their own reproduction. The only thing that could be remembered from this speech was that this was the first speech about women and given by the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Another example was the speech given by the President of USA, Barrack Obama in Wakefield School, Virginia in September 2010. The problem of Virginian students was that they prioritized playing around with their friends or just staying at home rather than going to school and doing the homework. The president felt so pity. Even though the USA is a liberal democratic country, it does not mean that the society are free to not follow the country’s interest to make them to go to school. Therefore, Obama gave a speech in front of hundreds of students of Wakefield school to tell them to be aware of the function of education. Even though it was phenomenal for it was believed as a socialism impose, it did not make a great change in the number of students who came back to the school. Therefore, it cannot be considered as a great speech as well. These two examples prove that even the powerful people could not guarantee the speech to be powerful to create any influences as well. Therefore, what makes a speech good or memorable is not only about who gives the speech but also about how that speech is delivered. The latest point plays the more important role in making a good speech. No matter who the speaker is, as long as the speaker uses a good strategy, the goal will be well-conveyed then. The researcher decided to analyze how a speech should be delivered in order to make it great and influential for the listeners. In order to know this strategy, the researcher took one of the most well-known and influential speech given in this 21 st century. Emma Watson’s speech at the UN General Assembly meeting which was conducted on September 20 th , 2014 was chosen as the object of the study. There are four factors that influence the researcher to finally take this speech as the object of this research. Firstly, this speech was given by Emma Watson who is known as a famous actress playing in Harry Potter film franchise but hardly seen involving in any political situations. Secondly, this speech was delivered in the UN General Assembly Meeting in which this meeting was very occasional. The listeners were the powerful people in the world and only certain people could speak here. Not to mention, the speech given in this meeting was also publicly streamed through the official website so that people in the world could directly watch and listen to the speech. Thirdly, the topic of the speech was very challenging. It was about feminism which shows the deconstruction of the gender equality. A topic like this is less likely to be discussed in the General Assembly because most of the topics discussed in the meetings are only about politics, economy or other social issues. The last factor was the audience ’s responses. The great responses were not only coming from the audience in the big hall but also from the international society who happened to see the video as well as the media which portrayed, spread and criticized the video. Many societies from different backgrounds started to have public discourses about the gender equality. With the 13-minutes speech, she could successfully achieve her goal to create a wake-up call for gender equality fighters. Therefore, it was very interesting to analyze the combination of a great speech and amazing public speaking skill in this speech. It is very important for the students of English Education Department to learn the effective way to communicate in English because they learn the language. This study brings one real example of the effective use of English which is Emma Watson’s use of English in her speech entitled HeForShe. The factors that influence how Emma’s speech is effective are analyzed here. Thus this research is important to reveal what factors that contribute in making a great speech.

B. Identification of The Problem

There are many people wondering how a speech can be so effective for achieving the goal of the speaker which is either to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. It becomes the main problem of students of English Education Department nowadays. They had difficulties in improving their speaking skills especially those which deal with a speech. In creating a speech they find it difficult to decide the topic, diction, and language use. One of the solutions to overcome this problem is by giving them the examples of a good speech. However, in understanding a speech, students, especially the non- native ones, often create various interpretations upon the speeches. It is not only because of the communication barriers such as but not limited to grammar, vocabularies, spelling etc. but it is also because of the complex language pattern of language variety. The problem mentioned above showed that the students of English Education Department had low English mastery because they could not construct the language in the effective way. It was proven by the fact that many of the students still could not clearly convey the idea of their speech. They tended to be rambling and could not speak to the point. They also could not perfectly perceive the idea that was tried to be delivered by a speaker. Sometimes, students totally did not know what the speaker was trying to say and sometimes they had wrong interpretations. It has been known that the mastery of pragmatics is very important in the communication skill because when the students are aware of the pragmatics, it will be easy for them to understan d the speaker’s meaning. Thus, it will prevent them from having the wrong interpretations. Furthermore it will also help them to know what kind of appropriate expressions to respond to and express something such as asking for a help, showing angry, happy, doubts feeling and so forth. Unfortunately, in the status quo right now many students just copy and paste the expression that they memorize from books . Meaninglessly mimicking the memorized