AN ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH AT ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPATI AGUNG ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023

Abstract

Based on teaching experience at the time of joining the PPL program especially in the eleventh grade of MAS Depati Agung, study at MAS Depati Agung, students‟ have difficulty achieving minimal completeness in English Lessons. They have difficulty in speaking English fluently, they can‟t get vocabulary correctly, they lack vocabulary and are unable to use part of speak English fluently. They have learned speaking since junior high school, but their abilities are still low. The purpose of this research is to understand the difficulties in speaking English, and the factors that most cause students to speak English. This study is a quantitative descriptive study. The subjects of this study are students‟ of class IX Madrasah Aliyah Kotabaru. While the object of this study is the difficulty of students‟ in speaking English. The writer uses total sampling to take samples and 20 students as samples. To collect data, the authors use questionnaire. Questionnaire is used to determine the difficulty of students‟ in speaking English. Based on the findings of the author can be found that the difficulties of students‟ in speaking English are categorized into a strong level The average value of students‟ in Academic and conversational English skill is 4.05 The average value of obstacles linguistic is 3.66 The average value of access to speaking opportunities is 3.53 The average value of the speech process difficulty is 3.29 and the average negative effect value is 3.13 from 5 aspect of students‟ difficulty in English speaking, it can be concluded that there is a dominant aspect found in this study, the most dominant difficulty of students difficulties in speaking English is “Academic and conversational English skills and obstacles linguistic.‟‟