THE USE OF SELF MONITORING TOWARDS STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ERROR: PSYCOLINGUISTICS STUDY

Abstract

In speaking pronunciation mistakes often occur among students. The lack of students' ability in language is due to a lack of word processing skills which causes difficulties in pronouncing the sentence correctly and correctly. Usually a student justifies their language sentence who is wrong in still speaking. Sometimes a student also experiences learning barriers which are caused by a lack of functioning to make the brain unable to accept properly.The researchers saw the students who read their recount text in front of the class. Then we analyze one by one what they had read and replaced it by themselves. After that the researchers make a note when there are some error pronunciation about what they had read. Because when they had error pronunciation, the researchers are ready to make a note. Because the error pronunciation would be the data of the article. The last, researchers will summarize the data which has been collected. From 13 students which doing self monitoring are only 3 students who make mistakes and do self-monitoring like shown in the table below and 10 students doing conversation correctly without mistakes. From this phenomena we can see that the 5th semester students of English department of Nahdlatul Ulama Universitie mostly can do conversation correctly and they are not in the unsuccessfully condition of producing language when they presentation about recount text of their holiday experience. So, this research concludes that self correction or self monitoring seldom to be used in the english class of S1 English education department.