An Analysis of Students’ Barriers In Speaking English Fluently (A Case Study at Department of English Language Education of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University)

In the field of communications, English language is required to Indonesian people to face the challenges of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Based on that, English language must be actively mastered as a mean of global communication. However, there are often obstacles that hinder the fluency of language skills. These barriers can lead to a lack of maximum outcomes. So, this thesis was aimed to dig deeper toward students’ barriers in speaking fluency, that still occur after passing three semester in Speaking Class (Basic Speaking, Intermediate Speaking, and English Presentation Skill), and to know their efforts in solving those barriers. It was designed under qualitative method and conducted to ten sophomore year EFL students at Department of English Language Education of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. The data was collected through interview and analyzed by using the concept suggested by Griffee, listening to the recoding, transcribing the audio, reading the transcript, coding and writing a summary of coded data.