Students' self-efficacy in public speaking program at SMKN 1 Lamongan

Public speaking anxiety is becoming the common problem which is faced by students. In fact, it is known while the students are performing public speaking. State vocational high school 1 Lamongan often participated public speaking competition, but the result of participating some competition, the students need to improve skill in public speaking as teacher’s interview result. Thus, public speaking program was held by the teacher as cooperation by SMKN 1 Lamongan and UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. By the case, therefore, it needs analyzing way to know the students’ readiness before performing speech by analyzing students’ self-efficacy in performing prepared speech. Prepared speech is one of public speaking’s types. This study focused on identifying students’ self-efficacy level in prepared speech, identifying factors influencing students’ self-efficacy in prepared speech and identifying teacher’s strategy in improving students’ self-efficacy in prepared speech. The researcher determines this study as qualitative case study using descriptive approach. The participates were from nineteen students of eleventh and twelfth grade. To answer the research problems, the researcher uses interview and questionnaire as the techniques to achieve the aims of this study. The result of this study shows that there are eight students who are in high level, six students in moderate level and five students in low level. The factors which influence students’ self-efficacy in prepared speech are performing speech experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and emotional state. There are also new factors which become the first factor influencing students’ self-efficacy. Those are confidence, ability, doubt and do not have any experience. Then, to improve students’ self-efficacy, the teacher used plan moderately challenging task, use peer models, affective strategy, social strategy and fun learning strategy.