Analyzing Lecturers’ Difficulties in Teaching Speaking by Using Direct Method

This study aims at analyzing lecturers’ difficulties in teaching speaking by using direct method at UIN Ar-Raniry, especially lecturers’of English Language Education department. There were 5 lecturers chosen as participants, who had applied the direct method in the speaking class. The instrument used in this research was semi structured interview. The writer found that there were some problems faced by the lecturers of English Language Education department such as difficulties in teaching at different level class, misunderstanding during teaching learning process, the anxiety of students’, and the enthusiasm of students’. Furthermore, the writer found that there were three factors causing the lecturers’ difficulty in teaching speaking using direct method, namely vocabulary limitation, student’s background, and student’s personality.