STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON EFL SPEAKING PROBLEMS

Randhy Maulana, Bukhari Daud, Handra Heriansyah

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems encountered by students in EFL speaking context. In order to ascertain the problems faced by students in learning this skill, qualitative study design undertaken by using purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the writers interviewed the students. To strengthen the result of data from interview, the writers administrated a number of questionnaires to students in relation to the problems of speaking. The collected data were analyzed by presenting them in the form of narration and following three steps proposed by Miles, Huberman and Saldana (2013). The research finding shows that all students face problems in speaking. The most problems that they faced in learning speaking skill are lack of vocabulary, poor pronunciation, less confidence to speak and afraid of making errors while speaking.

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qualitative study; speaking problem; views

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