BECOMING GOOD SPEAKERS IN ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Abstract

Being good English speakers is very needed, especially by the students, because now some companies in Indonesia require it as one of the job qualifications. Unfortunately, some students are still getting difficult on it. The most problems shown are they are demotivated, shy to say something, still lack of vocabulary, in trouble to show their idea, hard to insist on their arguments in a discussion, and not fluent in speaking English. From the problems mentioned, the researcher conducted a study to find some characteristics of good English speakers of engineering students. This study took two best students from different faculties of engineering as the subjects of the study. Both students were qualified through some tests, as listening, speaking, and paper-based TOEFL test. The data collection used some instruments; observation, interview and questionnaire. The data were analyzed descriptively from the instruments mentioned. The finding of the study showed some characteristics influencing the students to be good English speakers. Those characteristics were classified into motivation, learning style, learning habit, and belief.