“Students’ Attributions Of Success And Failure on Their Speaking English Skill (A Descriptive Qualitative Study at IAIN Curup Academic Year 2018/2019)”

Lestari, Anggini (2019) “Students’ Attributions Of Success And Failure on Their Speaking English Skill (A Descriptive Qualitative Study at IAIN Curup Academic Year 2018/2019)”. Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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The objectives of this research were to know what are students’attributions of success and failure on their speaking English skill and what are the reasons of the most attributions for success and failure that students have chosen in speaking skill at English Tadris Study Program at IAIN Curup. In order to answer the research question, this study employed qualitative research design. The subjects of this research were the seventh semester who had joined speaking 1 until speaking 4, and the researcher used Purposive Sampling to take the sample, the researcher had some criterion to take the sample. The criterion were students who had taken all speaking parts, speaking 1 until speaking 4 and the students who got different score in speaking. From 38 students, the researcher chose 16 students as a sample of this research who had the criterion based on this research. Then all the data were collected by interview. The first interview in this research to answer what are students’ attribution of success and failure on their speaking skill, the participants were specifically asked to provide answers of two questions. The result of this study was shown that there were six attributions for success and nine attributions for failure were found, strategy, interest, effort and ability became the major attributions for success and lack of ability, lack of self-confidence, lack of interest, lack of effort and negative mood became the major attributions for failure in speaking English skill. Then, second interview used to answer the second research question about what are the reasons of the most attributions of success and failure that students have chosen in speaking skill. The result showed that the students had their own strategies to practice and increase their skill in speaking, the topics could influence their interest in speaking, they tried to improve their skill in spekaing, they understood the topics well and they felt that they could not speak English well, often felt nervous to speak English, they were lazy and they were not in good condition.

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