The Difficulties Experienced by Students in Learning Speaking (A Study at SMAN 1 Bukit Bener Meriah)

ABSTRACT

The title of this thesis is “The Difficulties Experienced by Students in Learning Speaking (A Study at SMAN 1 Bukit Bener Meriah)”. This thesis discusses the difficulties faced by the students of SMAN 1 Bukit Bener Meriah in speaking English and investigates why they faced the obstacles. The population and sample of this research was the students and the teacher of SMAN 1 Bukit Bener Meriah. The sample of this study was taken by using random sampling. The sample was 30 students and 2 English teachers of SMAN 1 Bukit. It consisted of 15 students randomly from class XI Mia 1 and 15 students from class X Mia 1. To collect the data needed, the writer used some techniques; those were observation, interview, and questionnaire. In the end, the writer can conclude that the students in SMAN 1 Bukit Bener Meriah faced some difficulties in learning speaking. The problems were lack of grammar, difficulty to pronounce the words, and lack of vocabularies. The difficulties were caused by some factors; (1) Students had not enough motivation and interest in practicing of speaking English. (2) Students had no strategies in learning speaking English. (3) Teacher’s strategies in teaching English speaking were not so good.
Keywords : Difficulties, Learning, Speaking.