An Analysis of Non-English Department Students’ Speaking Ability at Universitas Riau
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.188How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Analysis, non-English students, speaking ability
- Abstract
This descriptive study aimed to describe and analyze the speaking ability of non-English department students at Universitas Riau in the academic year 2016/2017. The study was also aimed to describe the activities done by the English lecturer in the process of teaching and learning and the students’ difficulties in speaking. The data were gathered through observation, an oral test in the form of an interview, and documentation. The participants of the study were 20 students majoring in Accounting at the Faculty of Economics. The findings indicated that the average score of speaking ability of non-English department was 2.36 categorized as Fair. From the class observation, it was also discovered that the English lecturer already applied the stages of teaching English through reading materials on certain topics but lacked oral activities in the first week of teaching but with more speaking in the second week activities after the researcher hold a lengthy discussion. In the case of the participants’ difficulties in speaking, it was noticeable that they had difficulties in grammar vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency to some extent. Therefore, English lecturers when teaching need to provide students with more opportunities to practice speaking in order to improve their speaking ability.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rukmaryadi AU - Muhammad Zaim AU - Desvalini Anwar PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/12 TI - An Analysis of Non-English Department Students’ Speaking Ability at Universitas Riau BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 28 EP - 34 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.188 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.188 ID - 2020 ER -