The Article of HIGH ACHIEVERS’ USE OF SELF-TALK AS A STRATEGY IN SPEAKING

Abstract

Speaking in public for academic purposes is one of the most fear that undergraduate students suffer from, especially student teacher. For that case, researchers have proposed several strategies for public speaking including self-talk that could help students to be a better speaker. The purpose of this study is to understand the way high-achiever students do self-talk for their speech performances and the frequency of their self-talk. Using a basic qualitative data analysis, this study investigated which type of self-talk that high-achiever student’s use and their way to do their self-talk during speech performances. The researcher used self-talk concept from Brinthaupt as the primary theory and utilized it to determine the participants’ type of self-talk. The participants for this study were four high achiever undergraduate students. The result from this study were that all of the participants used self-management, there was no self-criticism founded, and the frequency of the participants’ self-talk affected their communication apprehensive.

Keywords: high achiever, self-talk, strategy, Academic Speaking.