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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
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The Correlation between Students Self Efficacy in Writing Descriptive Text and Their Writing Performance
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Writing performance is an aspect correlated significantly to writing as one of the essential part in the school curriculum. While writing self-efficacy is what students believe in the way they engaged with writing activities which is a multi-dimensions of linguistic self-efficacy, self-regulatory self-efficacy, and performance self-efficacy. Previous studies indicate that there is a significant correlation between students’ writing performance and their writing self-efficacy, but there is no research discussing it at secondary level of students. Thus, the current study is aimed to find out the writing self-efficacy level of secondary students and analyze whether there is any correlation between students writing' self-efficacy and their writing performance at secondary level, especially in writing descriptive text. The data are collected through conducting L2WSS survey on 20-40 eleventh grade students from SMA Negeri 1 Sumenep, valuing their writing performance using a Level-Specific Checklist of Binary Choice Items, and finally examining the correlation between writing self-efficacy and writing performance using SPSS 2016 program. The result shows that mean value of students writing self-efficacy is 4.83 from the range of 1-2 as the low level, 3-5 as the moderate, and 6-7 as the high, so it is considered as a moderate level of writing self-efficacy. While the correlational analysis shows significance value is 0.602 which is more than 0.05 (p>0.05), so that means there is no significance correlation between students writing self-efficacy and their writing performance at secondary level especially in writing descriptive text. Keywords: Writing, Writing Performance, Writing Self-Efficacy.
An Analysis of Speaking Anxiety in Public Speaking Performance
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The common problem that often arises during public speaking is speaking anxiety among students. This triggers students’ understanding that public speaking is difficult to do. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the existence of speaking anxiety among students and what factors trigger the emergence of speaking anxiety in public speaking. This study uses two types of instruments. The first is a questionnaire adapted from the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The questionnaire was used to obtain data on the existence of speaking anxiety in students. The data was taken from 47 students from the Excellent English Club (EEC) extracurricular at SMA Negeri 1 Babat, Lamongan. The second instrument is an interview, which is used to find out the factors that arise during public speaking. Based on the results of the study, the average score of the questionnaire shows that speaking anxiety belongs to an existing category when students do public speaking, and the results from interviews also show several factors, such as being afraid of making mistakes, having bad experience, and insecurity, that affect students’ performance when performing public speaking. The present study focuses on senior high students who are likely to have problems with their speaking anxiety during public speaking. Keywords: speaking anxiety, public speaking, EFL learners
The Use of Pecha Kucha for Speaking English by Students Participating in Pecha Kucha Competitions
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Pecha Kucha is one of the styles of presentation that gives a new dimension of conventional presentation which is long, wordy, and boring. The researcher still do not know how the participants of Pecha Kucha competition make use of Pecha Kucha for learning to speak English. This study will investigate The Use of Pecha for Speaking English by Students Participating in Pecha Kucha Competition. This research is case study. The researcher used Qualitative method to analyze data. The subjects of this study were 15 participants who join National Pecha Kucha Competitions in 2017 and 2019 which is conducted by Lembaga Bahasa LIA. All participants were Senior High School student at that time. The data were collected through questionnaire on how students make use of Pecha Kucha and the speaking skills that they have learned by using Pecha Kucha. The questionnaire was followed by an interview session to get the deeper information about the questions in questionnaire. However, from the questionnaire followed by interview, the researcher found that participants make use of Pecha Kucha for speaking English starting from make an outline, script & get correction, and practice until the day of competition. They also learned five components of speaking skills from Pecha Kucha namely, pronunciation, grammar, fluency, and expression, and also participant added one component of speaking skill which is vocabulary. To summarize, the finding of this study showed that Pecha Kucha helps participants speaking English starting from preparing materials until delivering the presentation to engage the audience.

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