An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Ability in Speech at English Department of UMN Al-Washliyah Medan
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.001How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ability; Speaking; Speech
- Abstract
Speaking is one of the important part in language skill that students should have in order to be able to communicate in English. Speech is one of ways for students to practice their English speaking and build their self confidence, share ideas, and express themselve to audience. The descriptive research focused on analyzing of students’ speaking ability in speech at the the sixth semester of Muslim Nusantara Al-Washliyah Medan in the Academic year of 2020/2021. The participants of the research were 10 randomly selected students of the English Department. The data were collected through speaking test, requiring the students to deliver a speech that had been analyzed based assessment of speech from [1] & [2], including (a) organizing speech; (1) Introduction, (2) Body; main point; supporting material, connective statement, (3). Conclusion; signal the end, pauses and vocal variety, reinforcement), (b) wording the speech; (1) vocabulary used, (2) grammar. (c) delivering a speech; (1). Speakers body; eye contact, gestures facial expression movement. (2).Speaker voice; pronunciation and articulation. The result found that the student’ speaking ability in speech was categorized into “good”. The average score achieved was 73.9; thus, it needed more encouragement especially in speech organization, and wording the speech.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Yulinda Oktaviana Harahap AU - Yenni Rozimela PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/30 TI - An Analysis of Students’ Speaking Ability in Speech at English Department of UMN Al-Washliyah Medan BT - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1 EP - 6 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211129.001 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211129.001 ID - Harahap2021 ER -