STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATION STYLE IN SPEAKING CLASS AT STKIP PGRI SUMATERA BARAT

Abstract

This research is aimed at investigating the types of students’ communicatin style in speaking class. In
teaching and learning proccess, the students ofcourse have different communication styles. It depends
on the students’ skill and readiness in performing their skill of communication in speaking class. This
research, then belongs to descriptive with qualitative approach. The researcher used random
sampling to determine the participants. There are 54 videos of the students’s speaking collected,
meanwhile the researcher only takes 11 documents as the participants. The instruments of this
research are video recordings and document checklists. There are three communication styles that the
researcher concerned with, namely passive, aggessive, and assertive. From the research findings, it
can be obviously stated that there are two communication styles found from the students’ speaking
performace- they are passive and assertive. In brief, aggressive style is not found at all.