scholarly journals Speaking Skill in Correlation with English Speaking Learning Habit and Self Confidence of Vocational High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iful Rahmawati Mega ◽  
Dody Sugiarto
Jurnal SOLMA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Somariah Fitriani ◽  
Hamzah Puadi Ilyas

For vocational high school graduates to be accepted in business and industry, increasing the ability to use international languages, one of which is English is one of the main goals. Thus, the purpose of this community service is to train the students in understanding presentations appropriately. While the particular objectives are: 1) Improve the knowledge of strategies of writing and presentations in English well; 2) Enrich English vocabulary; 3) Improve writing and speaking skill; 4) Increase self-confidence, and 5) Prepare them to become professional graduates in terms of mastering English. There are thirty students of 12th grade of SMKN 56 North Jakarta participating in this training. The training was conducted within 12 hours, which was divided into three sessions for two days. At each meeting, students were monitored and practiced under the trainers’ guidance. The trainers also showed two examples of good presentations on YouTube. The training techniques are the lecture, discussion, brainstorming, and demonstration / direct practice that train students to understand every step by step in presentation and writing. The results show that students’ self-confidence developed, and vocabulary mastery, writing, and presentation skills increased as well. Out of 30 students, 5 participants delivered a presentation without reading the text. Although the results were not significant, the students had active participation in the discussion and practiced in groups and gave the speech in public. The evaluation result was 38.79 of a 1-4 scale with an excellent category. It is concluded that this training is highly needed and useful for vocational students.


AL-TA LIM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Alek Alek ◽  
Abdul Gafur Marzuki ◽  
Muhammad Farkhan ◽  
Rahma Deni

Self-assessment is one of alternative ways to evaluate students’ speaking talent in English. Through this evaluation, students are allowed to discover, know, and develop their speaking skill. Nonetheless, this sort of project was probably not common in Indonesia. Thus, this study was aimed to know students’ perception of using self-assessment for assessing their oral performance at Link and Match vocational high school. The information of this study was gathered by means of questionnaire which consists of 5 questions about the use of self-assessment. In this qualitative study, the data had been analyzed descriptively. There have been 30 vocational high school students who stand in Multimedia Major as the participant of this study. The results of this study indicated that most of the students thought that self-assessment very helpful for them because it allowed them to know their functionality and develop it to achieve the course goal specifically the speaking course objective. However, some students though that self-assessment was considerably useful since the teacher not often use this assignment and the students not take pleasure in whereas attempting to assess themselves. Self-assessment is very useful in exploring and assessing students speaking skill.


Author(s):  
Sri Wahyu Indrawati ◽  
Emzir Emzir ◽  
Ninuk Lustyantie

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of learning techniques and self confidence of students' speaking skills in Indonesian discussion. This research was conducted on the students of the 107th class of the 17th National Senior High School Palembang in 2017 by using factorial experimental design technique 2 x 2. Type of research conducted is experiment technique analysis which was used Analysis of variance (ANAVA) two ways at level of significance 0,05.The results of this study indicated that mind mapping techniques were more effective than problem-based learning techniques, and then there was an interaction effect betweenStudents' speaking skill in Indonesian discussions by using mind mapping technique and students learning by using problem-based techniques, probability values ​​M_learning (0.795) Ë‚0.05. The mean value of learning with mind mapping technique is greater than the average value of learning with problem-based technique (84.89) Ë‚ (80.89).           


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huynh Thien Chi ◽  
Le Xuan Mai

EFL high school students’ low level of participation is reported as a problem commonly found in English speaking classes. This study aims to investigate high school students’ perceptions of suggestions for promoting students’ participation in English speaking classes. Questionnaires and interviews were employed as data collection instruments of the study. 206 EFL high school students from three grades in a high school in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam responded to the questionnaire and then 6 of them participated in the semi-structured interview sessions. The results strongly endorsed that “promote students’ self-confidence”, “make learning tasks stimulating and the way teachers present tasks”, “establish a supportive and caring relationship”, and “create a pleasant classroom climate” were significant strategies promoting students’ participation. The results of the study are expected to contribute to the comprehension of teachers’ strategies to enhance students’ participation in English speaking classes. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0727/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudung Ma’ruf Nuris ◽  
Cyntia Mega Istyaningputri

This study aimed to determine the factors that affect the independent learning of accounting students at a vocational high school. Independent learning can be implemented by someone if they have self-confidence. In addition, other factors that can be influential are student motivation and creativity. Motivation is an important factor because this can encourage students to carry out learning activities, and motivation will lead to creativity in learning. This explanatory quantitative research involved three independent variables and one dependent variable. The sample was obtained from vocational high school students in Malang majoring in accounting. Data were collected using a questionnaire, while the data were analyzed using multiple regression. The results showed that self-confidence had a significant effect on student independent learning. Motivation and creativity were also influential. These results reinforce the theory of constructivism where, in learning, a person must build on their own knowledge and learn from the experiences gained by others. Suggestions for further research include examining additional variables that may affect independent learning. Keywords: Self-Confidence, Learning Motivation, Learning Creativity, Learning Independence


Author(s):  
Grace J. Soputan

The challenges of vocational education is to answer the changed faced by people nowadays as well as to prepare the labor in particular number and quality according to the needs of different sectors, especially industrial and service sector. To prepare the graduate of vocational high school who fulfills the qualification of labor market, then the competency of the graduates of vocational high school need to be regenerated and increased. This research is to analyze the influence of entrepreneurships education and work training to students’ entrepreneur attitude. Students’ entrepreneur attitude can be seen from self-confidence aspect, oriented on task and result, risk takers, leaderships, originality and future oriented. Data was collected from 113 students at SMK N 2 Tondano by doing proportional sampling technique. The result of the research found that students’ entrepreneur attitude can be shaped through entrepreneurship education at school and work training or take apprentice programs outside of schools.


Author(s):  
Siti Uswatun Khasanah ◽  
Rizka Safriyani

<p>Students in vocational high school are required to learn their vocational skills and English as a Foreign Language in preparation for their potential profession or job. This research investigates the relationship between reading comprehension and speaking skills in English classes and the degree to which reading comprehension relates to vocational high school students' speaking abilities. Thirty-five students from a vocational high school in Surabaya participated in the study. This study's design was a correlation study, and it was performed using a descriptive quantitative method. The students were given a test to assess their abilities. The results of this study indicated that there was a connection between reading comprehension and speaking ability. The correlation coefficient was 0.61, and the correlation was strong. The teacher should have greater access to what they are reading, and improved reading resources would aid their communication skills.</p><p><strong>Keyword:  </strong>Correlation, Reading Comprehension, Speaking Skill</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Iin Maemunah ◽  
Tuti Iriani ◽  
Rina Febriana

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of the ability to process food and self-efficacy towards the interests of entrepreneurship. The research used a quantitative method with 204 Vocational High School students in culinary study programs taken from three State Vocational Schools in the city of Bekasi, Indonesia. The data were collected using such instruments as interview, documents and questionnaire. The results of the study showed that there was no significant influence the ability to process food towards the interest in entrepreneurship as there was also no significant influence of self-efficacy towards the interest in entrepreneurship. It was also found that state vocational high school students in Bekasi, Indonesia, had very low self-confidence and self-efficacy indicating that they had low motivation for entrepreneurship.


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