THE DIFFICULTIES OF PRESENTATION FACED BY BUSINESS ENGLISH STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
| Main Author: | Santoso, Kusuma Indarwati |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/79/Introduction.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/48/CHAPTER%20I.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/49/CHAPTER%20II.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/50/CHAPTER%20III.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/51/CHAPTER%20IV.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/47/CHAPTER%20V.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/80/LAMPIRAN.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/52419/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Presentation is one of activities given in Business English I class at University of Muhammadiyah Malang. This study focused on investigating the difficulties of presentation faced by Business English I students from 2 classes, Business English lecturer’s efforts to solve the difficulties of presentation, and Business English students’ efforts to solve their difficulties of presentation. Qualitative method is chosen in this study which is in form of words. The researcher used questionnaire to the Business English students to investigate their difficulties in presentation and their efforts to solve their own difficulties of presentation, and used interview to the Business English lecturer to investigate the efforts to solve the difficulties of presentation as the data instrument. Based on the results, there are some Business English students’ difficulties in presentation, such as; nervousness (31.6%), keeping the audiences’ interest (26.3%), understanding the topic that randomly given by lecturer (21%), grammatical problem (7.9%), memorizing problem which led to the blankness (7.9%), and limited time problem (5.3%). As for the efforts to solve those difficulties, they are; let the students know that it is okay to be nervous at the first meeting, do breathing exercise, not looking at the audiences’ eyes, do light movements on the limbs before presentation, suggesting the presenters to have activity in their presentation, be entertaining, creative, and communicative, giving comments, review, make simple understanding, looking for the information from internet, books, or asking the lecturer, learning about good grammar and do practice more, find out the similar words, asking the audiences, keeping talking and elaborating, as well as allowing the next presenters to remind the presenter about the time, and calculate the time well.