AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY IN PRESENTATION AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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The aimed to find out the second year students’ speaking ability in presentation at English Department of Bung Hatta University, Padang. To be more specifics it was aimed to find out the students’ ability in organizing the idea (content), using grammar, using appropriate vocabulary, using in terms of fluency, and using in terms of pronunciation in presentation. The design of this research was descriptive. The population was the second year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University, Padang. The total number of population was 45 students, and they were distributed into two classes: class A and class B. The researcher used simple random sampling technique to select the sample. The total number of sample members was 15 students. In collecting data, the researcher used speaking test. Reliability coefficient was very high correlation (0.88). It means that the test was reliable. Based on the finding, the researcher found that there were 66.67% students classified got moderate in presentation, 60.00% students classified got moderate criteria in organizing idea (content), 40.00% students classified got moderate criteria in using grammar, 80.00% students classified got moderate criteria in appropriate vocabulary, 80.00% students classified got moderate criteria in terms of fluency, and 60.00% students classified got moderate criteria in terms of pronunciation. Relating to this conclusion, the researcher suggests the lecturer to improve their students’ speaking ability especially more practice in presentation. The lecturer should give their students the opportunities they need to communicate with other students in their class by using English, student talk to one or more people that to increase their organizing idea, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and pronunciation. And the students expected to improve their speaking ability in presentation into high ability through practicing speaking especially in presentation. For the researchers, since the students’ speaking ability in presentation was moderate, the next researcher should find out the students’ difficulties in speaking especially in presentation.
Key words: Students’ Speaking Ability, Speaking and Present.ation.