Exploring Pauses in Students’ Oral Presentation
in Public Speaking Class
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Christian Ade Chandra
112007089
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
EXPLORING PAUSES IN STUDENTS‟ ORAL PRESENTATION IN PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS
Exploring Pauses in Students’ Oral Presentation
in Public Speaking Class
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Christian Ade Chandra
Approved by:
Christian Rudianto, M. Appling Christine Manara, M.A. ELT
Supervisor Examiner
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EXPLORING PAUSES IN STUDENTS‟ ORAL PRESENTATION IN PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS
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Christian Rudianto, M.Appling Christine Manara, M.A. ELT
Exploring Pauses in S
tudents’
Oral Presentation
in Public Speaking Class
Christian Ade Chandra
Abstract
Communicative language abilities consist of linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence, and fluency. Pauses production which becomes one of fluency indicators can help presenters to think about what they are going to say next. Besides, pauses can also help the audience to digest what presenters are saying and have said. Pauses are categorized into two types: filled and unfilled pauses (Tiffany and Carrel, 1987). Pauses production can be caused by the lack of preparation and practice, negative feeling toward the topic, time constraint, the awareness of being evaluated, and so forth. This study investigated what types of pauses the respondents produced when performing a formal speech and what caused the pauses. The respondents were four university students enrolled in public speaking class. This study collected the data on pauses and their causes through the classroom observation and interview. This qualitative study found that all respondents produced filled and unfilled pauses. Besides, this study found several causes of the respondents‟ pauses: the lack of preparation or practice, awareness of being watched, mispronouncing words, the process of translating the respondents‟ first language to English, the turn of presentation, high expectation from the lecturer, and high dependency on a script and noisy situation in the classroom. Non-language factors affect speaking fluency more than Non-language mastery does.
