U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 6, No 5 (2017): U-JET

Building Students Self Confidence in Speaking through Group Discussion

Agung Putra Mangunsong (Lampung University)
Ari Nurweni (Lampung University)
Mahpul Mahpul (Lampung University)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Jul 2017

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah i) kelompok diskusi dapat meningkatkan kepercayaan diri siswa dalam berbicara dan ii) apakah ada peningkatan pada kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah belajar dalam kelompok diskusi. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah analisa kwantitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah 15 siswa kelas dua di sekolah menengah atas. Selain itu, tes berbicara dan kuesioner di gunakan untuk mengumpulkan data. Pembelajaran menggunakan kelompok diskusi disarankan bagi para guru karena kelompok diskusi memfasilitasi siswa dengan lingkungan berkomunikasi yang menyediakan wadah bagi siswa untuk mengembangkan pemikiran mereka.The aim of this study was to explore whether i) group discussion improved students self-confidence and ii) there was an improvement of students speaking ability after the implementation of group discussion. The design was quantitative analysis. The subjects of this research were 15 students of the second grade of SMAN 8 Bandar Lampung. Speaking tests and questionnaires were administered to collect the data. The result showed that group discussion significantly improved the students self-confidence and the speaking ability. This suggests that group discussion facilitates students to improve their self-confidence and speaking ability.Keywords: group discussion, speaking ability, self-confidence.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...