The Correlation Between Short Sentence Memorization and Students

Confidence in Speaking Class at the Second grade of IAIN Surakarta in the

Academic Year of 2020/2021

THESIS
Submitted as A Partial Requirements
for Writing the Thesis

By:

Muchamad Harun Alrosjid

SRN. 173221168

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION

CULTURES AND LANGUAGES FACULTY
THE STATE ISLAMIC INSTITUTE OF SURAKARTA
2021
 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

The purpose of teaching English at school is to develop the students’
language skills, English has four basic language skills. They listening, speaking,
writing and reading. The four basic English languages cannot be separated because
they are related to one another.
Speaking is the skill which must produce sentence or utterance in the oral
mode. Different from the other skills, it is more difficult than the other, because it
is more than just pronouncing words (Bashir, 2011, p. 38).
In college speaking classes, generally, students will learn about how to
speak properly and according to correct grammar, to develop their English speaking
skills. There are also ways that students can do such as remembering English
vocabulary or imitating a stranger's words or from a western film that can be
downloaded on the internet. According to (Utama et al, 2013) There are two aspects
to be success in the speaking skill; linguistics aspect and non-linguistic aspect.
Grammar, word order, pronounciation, comprehension of utterance, vocabulary,
and fluency are the linguistic aspect, And non-linguistics aspect involves persolity
dimension, such as self-esteem, extroversion, motivation, intergroup climate, and
self-confidence.
Self-confidence is one of the factors which play the importan role in
determining the learners’ willingness to communicate of the speaking skill (Utama
et al, 2013 and Dornyei et al as cited in Park & Lee, n.d.)
According to (Putri, 2018) In speaking English, students have 2 obstacles:
1.) Psychological factors, in this case, students still have low self-confidence in
speaking in public. There is fear when making mistakes during dialogue. 2) The
grammar factor, in this case, students have mastery of most types of grammar which
is still low. Only able to say the type but unable to explain the meaning of the
grammar.
In communication play, self-confidence has an important role, exactly in
the learners’ willingness to communicate. Because that, self-confidence give an
effect to their abilities. High self-confidence can be positively correlated with oral
performance (Heyde as cited in Park, 2004, p. 198). Therefore, student who has
higher self-confidence than the other students can communicate well. So, they have
the speaking ability in English are better than the other students. That can be
supported by the statement that situational self-confidence in communication plays
an important role in determining the learners’ willingness to communicate. (Lee
and park, 2004, p. 206).
Even though students memorize a lot of English vocabulary but they have
problems in compiling or arranging these vocabulary words into structured
sentences while practicing speaking English, which makes them less fluent in
speaking English, which ultimately disturbs students' confidence when in speaking
class, This is in accordance with the research conducted by (Putri, 2018) with the
title "Factors Affecting the English Language Ability of Office Administration
Education Students" that there is fear when making mistakes during dialogue.

In line with this research, memorizing short sentences in English will help
students speak English without fear of errors in sentence structure because students
no longer need to compile a correct sentence, because they have memorized it,
thereby eliminating worry or not. students' confidence in the speaking class.

Short sentence memorization is also something students usually do to make

it easier to learn to speak their English, even though they don't realize it,
memorizing short sentence memorization can be obtained from anywhere from
watching western films, using the internet, or even from playing video games.
 In a study that examined the effect of short sentence memorization on
speaking skills (Kitagaki, 2013, p. 3) states that English sentence memorization has
an effect on the enhancement of the speaking skill.

That is why the researcher chooses the title “The Correlation Between Short
Sentence Memorization and Students Confidence”

B. Problem Identification
Based on the background of the study above, the problem of the research as
identified as follow:
1. Less fluent in speaking English makes students less confident in speaking
class.
2. Mostly students are worried about their ability to speak English even though
they have memorized the vocabulary
3. Lack of memorizing short sentences in the second semester of speaking class
students caused the students to speak English less fluently.
4. The correlation between short sentence memorization and students confidence
in speaking class

C. Limitation of the Problem

The writer limits the research to the second semester of English Education
Departmen of IAIN Surakarta in Academic Year 2021/2022. This research
conducted to find out whether or not there is correlation between short sentence
memorization and Students' confidence in speaking class.
D. Problem Formulation
Based on the background of the research, the researcher formulated the
research problem as follow: Is there any positive significant correlation between
short sentence memorization and students’ confidence in speaking class of the
second semester of IAIN Surakarta?

E. The Objective of the Study

To find out the correlation between short sentence memorization and

students' confidence in speaking class of the second semester at IAIN Surakarta in
the academic year 2020/2021.

F. The Benefits of the Study

There are benefits that will be gained through this research. The benefits of the
study are:
1. Theoretically Benefit
This study provides a description of the relationship between memorizing short
sentences and students' confidence in speaking class. This research is expected
to provide useful knowledge related to remembering short sentences to give
students confidence in speaking classes. This study also expected to provides
a useful description for any further researcher who wants to study the same
case, hopefully, this study source of information and reference.
2. Practical Benefit
a. For the Teacher
This research hopfully helps for teachers in teaching students to be able to
have confidence in speaking class with short sentence memorization.
b. For the Learner
 This research is useful to provide convenience and confidence to students
learning English in the speaking class, also the result of this study can
increase the student intelligences about the language learning strategies
and students thinking styles. The results of this study can be useful in the
English learning especially in improving Language skill.
c. For the Institutions
The result of this research hopefully can support the institution to improve
and increase the quality of the students especially in English language
learning
d. For the Readers
They will get more information and experience from this research and also
become a reference for similar studies. This study can helps the readers or
other researchers to do the same related research. The result of this research
also can be the reference for other research.

G. Definition of Key Term

In this section, the researcher briefly provides definitions of key terms to
make the meaning understandable. The author conveys that in order to avoid
misinterpretation of the title of this research, the author would like to clarify and
explain the terms used.
1. Speaking
Speaking is the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of
verbal and nonverbal symbols, in a variety of contexts (Chaney, 1998, p. 13).
2. Sentence
(Verspoor & Sauter, 2000 p. 34) states that a sentence is a group of words that
in the written text it starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, question
mark, or exclamation mark.
3. Memorization
Memorization can be defined as a strategy that focuses on the storage and
retrieval of language (Nasrollahi-Mouziraji & Nasrollahi-Mouziraji, 2015).
4. Self-Confidence
self-confidence is an attitude and students with self-confident believe in their
abilities, they are goal-directed, they believe that they will reach their goals
and expectations (Akbari & Sahibzada, 2020).’Another definition of Self-
confidence is defined as “individuals’ performance expectancies and their self-
evaluations of ability and completed performances” (Lenney, 1981 p. 905)