Sharpening Self-Confidence to Improve Speaking Ability

            One of the abilities in English is Speaking. Speaking ability is one of the supporting tools in communicating using English. Speaking ability of each person is diverse, some are fluent and even stammered. Whether someone is fluent or not, it depends on the confidence he or she has. Rakhmat (2009) stated that, “The most decisive factor in the barriers to public speaking is lack of confidence.” Self-confidence is a belief that a person has in his/her ability. Many people who do not have high confidence to be able to communicate in English in their daily lives causes the person to stammer in speaking. So that, it can be concluded that self-confidence becomes one of the factors that can make a person able to speak personally and in public. Therefore, if we want to have good speaking skill, it would be good to know how to sharpening confidence to improve speaking ability.

Name             : Larasatun Hasanah

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