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… Quiz …
Here are several excerpts of sections or chapters taken from Psychological Factors
Affecting EFL Students’ Speaking Performance by Ariyanti (2016). Which ones
belong to Discussion section? Mark [√] for what should be included in Discussion
section, and mark [X] for those which should not be in it.
1. This factor, besides anxiety and self-esteem, becomes the psychological
factor, which affect their decision whether they will speak in English.
2. Particularly, speaking is one of skills which have to be mastered by
students in learning English (Mustafa, 2015).
3. It is indicated from their action of not paying attention to their friend’s
performance and getting themselves busy in doing other activities
during the speaking activity such as playing with their cellphones.
4. In this first step, the researcher organizes the data obtained by using
the techniques of collecting the data into folders then converts them
into sentences.
5. Speaking is one of core components in English language proficiency
which is highly important to acquire by students
6. Furthermore, it has close relationship with the position of English as a
foreign language for them and their incapability in English.

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