Paper Title
The Effect of Speech Training with Systematic Desensitization on Enhancing Students’ Speaking Competence
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate whether Speech Training with Systematic Desensitization could improve
the students’ speaking competence or not. This study used an experimental design. The population of this study was all
fourth semester students in the English Department in one of Universities in Kendari of academic year 2015/2016. The
instruments of this study were speech test, observation checklist, interview guidline and note taking. The data were analyzed
quantitatively and qualitatively. The finding of this study was mean score of Speech Training with Systematic
Desensitization Technique was 67.36 for pretest and 79.80 for posttest. It indicated that the students’ speaking competence
got improvement because the increasing of mean score of speech test from pretest to posttest. Thus, Speech Training with
Systematic Desensitization Technique could increase the students’ speaking competence.
Keywords- Speech training, Systemathic Desensitization, speaking competence.