OBSTACLE ON LEARNING EUROPEAN

COMMUNICATION AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE

COURSE IN MALANG RAYA

SRI HARTININGSIH

UNIVERITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH

MALANG

ABS-ICOLLITE-20087

THE BACKGROUND Need interaction &

communication with other

countries

Require a language as mean of

communication

In process, it might be found the

handicaps like large classes and

time (Dina & Ghadeer, 2014), the

learners, teaching strategy,

environment, curriculum

(Rabab’ah, 2005), different &

educational background of

learners

The ability to speak (Hartiningsih,

2013)

European: English, French &

Germany

RESEARCH PROBLEM

What obstacle are found in learning European communication?

How do the learners

overcome obstacles in learning European communication?

DESCRIPTIVE QUANTITATIVE

THE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH, FRENCH & GERMANY ON

JUNE 2019

QUESTIONAIRE

DISTRIBUTING & COLLETING

QUESTIONAIRE

TABULATING, CODING, WRITING & CONCLUDING

METHOD

ENGLISH

PRONUNCIATION (50%),

GRAMMAR (33.3%),

AFRAID OF BEING LEFT ON

MATERIAL (16.7%)

ENGLISH

FRANCE

GRAMMAR (57.7%)

PRONUNCIATION (27%)

VOCABULARY (15.3%)

FRANCE

GERMANY

GRAMMAR (46.6%)

VOCABULARY (46.6%)

AFRAID TO MAKE

MISTAKE (6.8%)

GERMANY

OBSTACLE IN

LEARNING

EUROPEAN

COMMUNICATION

SOLUTION IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION: keep

trying, making speaking habit, studying harder &

practicing; GRAMMAR: memorizing & keeping on

practice; AFRAID BEING LEFT ON MATERIAL:

managing time to work and to join the course

SOLUTION IN FRANCH GRAMMAR: memorizing tense &

racticing in making sentence;

PRONUNCIATION: Repeating to

pronounce Watching video & listening

song; VOCABULARY: memorizing,

reading article asking friend to speak with,

repeating material & studying

SOLUTION IN GERMANY GRAMMAR:Often to practice, listening to song, using

Google translate voice, looking at dictionary & watching

YouTube; VOCABULARY; Memorizing, asking friend,

often practicing, studying step by step & changing phone

setting; AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKE: More learning,

practicing, making accustomed & trying to speak

ENGLISH

PRONUNCIATION

(50%), GRAMMAR (33.3%),

AFRAID OF BEING LEFT

ON MATERIAL (16.7%)

ENGLISH

FRANCE

GRAMMAR (57.7%)

PRONUNCIATION (27%)

VOCABULARY (15.3%)

FRANCE

GERMANY

GRAMMAR (46.6%)

VOCABULARY (46.6%)

AFRAID TO MAKE

MISTAKE (6.8%)

GERMANY

OBSTACLE IN LEARNING EUROPEAN

COMMUNICATION

Pronunciation, grammar, vocabularies, afraid of

being left on material and afraid to make mistake

(anxiety) belong to linguistic obstacle while afraid of

being left on material and afraid of making mistake

are categorized as non- linguistic obstacle

The dominant obstacle on English learners is

pronunciation that which was different from Machmud &

Abdullah (2018) findings that they state that anxiety has

become a major problem for students when asked to

speak in a speaking class whereas Heriansyah’s finding

(2012) shows that common obstacle is vocabulary

DISCUSSION

One of the problems arises dominantly on European foreign language is the pronunciation where most of the learners get difficulties on this matter as they are not accustomed to use the language and the influence of learners’ cultural background like more speak on Bahasa Indonesia rather than the target language they are learning.

To overcome learners’ problems in foreign language learning, it depends on their cultural background and their learning style.

CONCLUSION

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