ABSTRACT

Shofiatuzzahra. 2019. Students’ Self-Esteem and their Efforts in Overcoming Speaking Difficulties in Intermediate Speaking Class of English Department Lambung Mangkurat University. English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Fatchul Mu’in, M.Hum, the second advisor: Nasrullah, M.Pd.B.I.

Keywords: self-esteem, speaking, efforts

                        Self-esteem correlates positively with performance on oral production measure (Adelaide Heyde, Brown 2007: 142). No successful cognitive can be carried out without degree of self-esteem. This study was aimed to find out the students’ self-esteem level of 3^rd semester students at English Department of Lambung Mangkurat University and to explore students' efforts in overcoming difficulties of speaking. This study used qualitative approaches with descriptive method. The subject of this study is 3^rd semester students at English Department of Lambung Mangkurat University. The researcher took 41 students as the sample.Furthermore, the instruments used in this study were observation, questionnaire and interview. According to the test result, it showed that the students’ self-esteem level was mostly in average level. Most of students stated that speaking aspects affect their level of self-esteem. To overcome the problem such as grammar, the students tend to construct the sentences before performing, practice their pronunciation and enhance the vocabulary skill by watching or listening to music. The researcher expects the students have the reflection to themselves about what is affecting them the most and make some efforts to overcome it.