JURNAL BAHASA INGGRIS THE EFFECT OF SCRIPTED ROLE PLAY AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING COMPETENCY AT SMA N 8 DENPASAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Penulis : N. W. S. Adnyani1, I. K. Seken2, P. K. Nitiasih3

Keywords: anxiety, scripted role play, speaking

Jurnal Penelitian | JURNAL BAHASA INGGRIS THE EFFECT OF SCRIPTED ROLE PLAY AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING COMPETENCY AT SMA N 8 DENPASAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 Communication is one of the many important things in our life. Human is social creature, it means that people all around the world need to communicate each other in their social life.Therefore, language is one tool that is used to communicate each other. There are some definitions of language. In Outline of Linguistics Analysis, Bloch and Trager wrote “A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a members of social group cooperate” (Lyons,1981:4). 

Language is needed for communication in order to send and convey information. Language is also used for sending massage from one to the others and to maintain communication from speaker to listener and from writer to the reader. 

In order to communicate with other people around the world, it is a must to master an international language. One of the international languages is English. Today English is the official language of international conferences, and most of the important publications in science and technology now appear in English. Researchers must read English-language journals and books to keep up with advances in their fields (Yang,1995). Of the 4,000 to 5,000 living languages, English is by far the most widely used (Broughton,1980). Some countries in the world use English as their second language and some other countries use English as their foreign language. That is, it is taught in schools, often widely, but it does not play an essential role in national or social life (Broughton,1980). 

In formal education in Indonesia, English is compulsory subject which is taught in school, from elementary schools to university. Harmer (1991) states that the greatest numbers of students in the world learn English because it is on school curriculum. The ultimate objective of teaching English is to equip the students with communicative ability in order that by the end of the study, the students are able to acquire communicative competence or ability to communicate, which concerns both spoken or written language and four language skills (Rebecca 1990).

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