THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY NON-ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN IKIP WIDYA DARMA

AMIATUN NURYANA

Authors

AMIATUN NURYANA IKIP Widya Darma Surabaya

Keywords:

Difficulties, non-English department student, speaking English

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to find out the difficulties encountered by Non-English department students in speaking English, and investigating which dominant factor contribute to their difficulties. This research also investigate which the best strategies that Non-English department students choose to overcome their difficulties. This research was conducted in IKIP Widya Darma especially the eight semester students in academic year 2019/2020.This research used study case method by using questionnaire and interview to collect the data. The data was analyzed using Champion formula which use percentage method. Actually, there are three factors that contribute to the difficulties and strategies chosen by Non-English department students in speaking English, which are psychological factor, linguistic factor and contextual factor. But this research focus on psychological factor. The result of psychological factors shows that lack of self-confidence ranked first with a total of 70% in this aspect that had the most contributes to students difficulties in speaking English, while for anxiety and lack of motivation was in second place with 60% . But these three factors were still at level III in the data that had already classified by Champion, it could be interpreted that anxiety, lack of confidence and lack of motivation sufficiently affected or gave contribution to the difficulties encountered by Non-English Department students in speaking English. As for the fear of mistakes and shyness were at level II in the Champion data which if it could be interpreted that these two factors were less to give effect to the difficulties faced by Non-English Department students in speaking English. If these five statements were combined, the researcher found the total point of psychological factor is 81 and the average is 16. About the percentage, psychological factor have the total percentage 54% and it classified to class III according to Champion data,

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