Students’ Confidence in Expressing Opinions at a Senior High School in Pademawu

Abstract

This research is motivated by the existence of students who experience low self-confidence in expressing opinions during discussion forums in class so that it has an impact on their lessons at school. The purpose of this study was to determine the students' confidence in expressing their opinions at SMA Negeri 1 Pademawu (a senior high school). This study uses a qualitative approach. Sources of data were obtained by interviews and observations. The type of interview used is unstructured interview while the type of observation used is the participant and non-participant observation. The research subjects are students of class XI SMA Negeri 1 Pademawu. The results of this study indicate that the factors that affect students' confidence in expressing opinions are internal from innate or genes because of one parent who has the same nature so that it can be passed on to their children. And also to increase students' confidence in expressing opinions, namely the cognitive restructuring method to change negative thinking patterns into positive ones.