Students’ Strategies in Overcoming Their Problems During Oral Presentation in Seminar on ELT Course

Abstract

DIAN YUNANDA, Reg. No 2130104015, entitled: "Students’ Strategies in Overcoming Their Problems During Oral Presentation in Seminar On ELT Course”. English Teaching Department Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Islamic State University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research is that Students’ problems during oral presentations in the seminar on the ELT course. This research was aimed to describe Students’ strategies in overcoming their problems during oral presentation in seminar on elt course. This type of research is a qualitative research, using descriptive design. The technique used in collecting informants is purposive random sampling. The informants in this research were the sixth-semester English students at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar who were registered in the 2024/2025 academic year and had taken the Seminar on ELT course. In this research, the researcher as the key instrument and the interview guide as a supporting instrument. To test the validity of the data, the researcher used a prolong engagement, namely by conducting additional interviews if there was insufficient or doubtful data or information regarding the consent requested by the informant during the first interview. To carry out data analysis, the researcher referred to the theory (Miles and Huberman, 1994), namely data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and data verification. The researcher conducted interviews based on the interview guide, then analyzed the results of the interviews, and drew conclusions and verified the research findings. The results of this research indicate that there are fourteen strategies used by sixth-semester students majoring in English education at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in overcoming their problems during oral presentation in seminar on ELT course. The Strategies are: 1) Correcting grammar before doing a performance, 2) making sticky notes, 3) creating an interesting PowerPoint, 4) preparing simple content, 5) asking friends in small group discussion, 6) repeating material, 7) managing time, 8) practicing before doing performance, 9) learning from mistakes, 10) having self-assurance, 11) identifying trigger, 12) having no eye contact, 13) taking a depth breath to overcome nervous, and 14) looking for synonyms when forgetting.