A STUDY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ ORAL COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH CLASS ATSMAN 7 PADANG

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The aim of this research was to describe the first year students’ oral communication problems in English class at SMAN 7 Padang. Furthermore, in this research described students’ problems in two indicators, the first waslinguistic factors consist of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.The second was affective factors such as, communication apprehension, self-esteem and introverted.The instrument was questionnaire for gathering data about students’ oral communication problems in English class. The result of this research in generally, 91% students had problems in oral communication class.Specifically, from the data analysis, the studentshad problems in linguistic factors was 89% and the result of each indicator, the first was students who had problems in grammar was 83%, problems in pronunciation was 91% and the last, problems in vocabulary was 89%. The students had problems in affective factors was 88.57%. Specifically, based on each indicator, students who had problems in communication apprehension was 89%, problems in self-esteem was 86% and students who had problems in introverted was 89%. Based on the students’ respond in questionnaire, those factors were caused because of inadequate knowledge in grammatical pattern, lack of vocabulary, incorrect pronunciation, not confident, they didn’t have motivation and uncomfortable in using English as a communication tool. Related to the result of students’ oral communication problems in English class, the researcher noticed that 91% students had problems in oral communication class.

Keywords:Oral communication, problems, linguistic factors, affective factors