Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : desi adetia student no. : 1306102020060 study pogram : english education title : an analysis on english students’ self-esteem in speaking english at english department students of syiah kuala university keywords: speaking, self-esteem, self-confident, self-efficacy this research was intended to investigate the english students’ self-esteem in speaking english at syiah kuala university especially form department of english education. the type of method used in this research is qualitative study. the self-esteem questionnaire and interview were given to the students to find about their self-esteem in speaking. fifty english students of academic year 2013- 2016 were selected randomly for questionnaire subject and also ten students chose as an interview subject. the questionnaire used consisted of 10 items which were modified from rosenberg’s self-esteem scale (1995) and mills (2009). the findings of interview was used to support or to get more valid data about students sel-esteem. to obtain the score of students’ self esteem, the data were analyzed based on miles and huberman (1994). after finding the result, the researcher described the questionnaire’s results in charts while the interview’s results are described in form of narration. this study concluded that most of the students have a normal self-esteem with only some students faced speaking difficulties such as lack of vocabulary, feeling unconfident, grammar problem and such other problems.