AN ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING PROBLEMS AT SMAN 6 BENGKULU

Abstract –This research focuses on student’s English speaking problems and the
aim of this research is to find out the most dominant problem in speaking
performance faced by the tenth grade of SMAN 6 Bengkulu based on the video of
students’ speaking performance. The population of this research is students of
SMA 6 Bengkulu. The sample of this research was grade X IPS D of SMAN 6
Bengkulu. The instrument used in this research is table of analysis. The research
method used in this research is the descriptive method. The writer use video
recording as the tools of data collection. From the analysis findings, psychological
problems is the most dominant problem faced by the students of SMAN 6
Bengkulu with mean percentage of 22.5%; lack of confidence 24%, and anxiety
21%. It is followed by linguistic problems with mean percentage of 18%; lack of
grammar 34%, lack of vocabulary 4%, and lack of pronunciation 16%. In
conclusion, psychological problems is the most dominant problem faced by the
students of SMAN 6 Bengkulu.
Keywords: Speaking Problems, Linguistic Problems, Psychological Problems