The Factors Of Difficulties Faced By Students In Oral Presentation (A Mixed Method Research In Student Of English Tadris Study Program At IAIN Curup On Academic Year 2014/2015)

Darmansyah, Riken Dawud (2018) The Factors Of Difficulties Faced By Students In Oral Presentation (A Mixed Method Research In Student Of English Tadris Study Program At IAIN Curup On Academic Year 2014/2015). Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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Oral presentation is a form of communication which is intended to convey certain ideas, messages and information. Oral presentations have become part of most courses offered in institutions of higher learning. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the factor of students’ difficulties and the ways’ in overcoming the factors of difficulties in Oral Presentation. There are three factors of students difficulties in oral presentation, personal traits, presentation skills, audience and lecturer. The method of this research was mixed method research. The subject of this reseach was all of English Students in eight semester. The instrument of this research were Questionnaire and Interview. The questionnaire used to obtain the highest and the lowest in Factors of students’ difficulties in oral presentation. The researcher choosed five students who got higest score from the questionnaire in order to get clear information of the factors of students difficulties and the way in overcoming their factors by interview. Based on percentages of questionnaire, it showed that 64,9% factors of difficulties in oral presentation affected by personal traits factor. Hence, presentation skill factor was 63,9% and for audience and lecturer factor was 61,9%. The dominant factor was personal traits factor. Beside, on this study also investigate the ways of students in overcoming the factors. The factors of difficulties was overcome with the various ways. The ways are suggested in order to assist the students better in oral presentation. To overcome factors of personality traits, the students regulating the breath, think positive, using body movement, body language, drink mineral water, chew buble gum. To solve presentation skilss, the students find out some references for the topic, discussing with friend, avoid the difficult content, use familiar word, find out the synonym of the difficult word, use the easy pattern in grammar, search on the internet in making good slide, practice and prepare for estimate the time appropriately, decide the content what to include and what to leave out from the material in presentation. hence, to solve the factors of audience and lecturer the students not too focus to the audience, only focus to the closest friend, answer the question loudly and convince, and take the audience to answer the difficult questions.

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