Abstract:
English as an international language is a very important need to master for all people in the world because it makes the communications each others to be easier. One kind of communication form that people can do is speaking. However, speaking is a difficult ability for foreign language learners. The action of speaking is spontaneous and the planning time is severely limited. For students who have inferiority feelings, it will be a big problem. They may feel frustrated, uneasy, and even less self- confident. The problems on this research are to know (1) the level of students‘ inferiority; (2) the causes of feeling inferior in the speaking class; (3) the effect of inferiority in the student‘s speaking ability.
The respondents were students of the Fourth Semester at English Department of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in The Academic Year 2012/2013. The total of respondents was 30 students by applying purposive sampling. The data about students‘ inferiority were obtained by using questionnaire, and the data about the score of student‘s speaking were obtained by using documentation. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were calculated using SPSS statistics version 17.0. Moreover, the correlation analysis between score of student‘s inferiority and score of student‘s speaking were also using SPSS statistics version 17.0.
The main results of this research are (1) the student‘s inferiority can be categorized as adequate level with percentage 36.67% at the range 54- 61 from the average inferiority‘s score is 58.23 with the highest score is 70 and the lowest score is 38; the student‘s speaking ability can be categorized as good level with percentage 73.33% at the range 66 – 79 from the average speaking‘ score is 77.77 with the highest score is 88 and the lowest score is 72; (2) the most dominating cause of feeling inferior is feeling lack of self ability; (3) the effect of inferiority in the students‘ speaking ability in the fourth semester students of class A at English Department of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in The Academic Year 2012/2013.is a very low positive correlation. It is based on the correlation analysis between score of student inferiority and score of student speaking using SPSS statistics version 17.0 is 0.125 or 12.5%.
