Track: Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Public speaking is one of the conditional subjects that should be pursued by higher education students. It offers students the ability to talk as a subject of learning with a voice. Some of the components of speech that should be measured by students include comprehension, vocabulary, pronunciation , and grammar. This research was a descriptive study designed to explain students ' speaking skills that were acceptable for speech indicators. The population was seventh semester students of the English Department of STAI Miftahul Ula, a total sample of 40 students was used. The research instrument used the speech test to test the validity and reliability of the test. The data was analyzed using the percentage formula. Based on the finding of the result , it was found that the capacity of students to talk in a speech was in different categories. In comprehension, the majority of students were strongly categorized (62.5 per cent), therefore the student's fluency in speech ordering was high categorized (67.5 per cent). When the vocabulary was chosen and the words pronounced, 55 % of students got better, but in grammar, students still have a problem. The data showed that only 32.5 percent of students had a high category.