STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING LESSON AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 04 MUKO-MUKO

This research aimed to describe the students’ difficulties encountered by the
eleventh-grade students of State Senior High School 04 Muko-Muko in English
Speaking Lesson and to describe the factors causing the difficulties in English
Speaking Lesson at the eleventh grade of State Senior High School 04 Muko-Muko.
This research used mix method research design. The subject of this research was
eleventh grade students at State Senior High School 04 Muko-Muko. The sample
of the research was 31 students for questionnaires and 10 students for interview.
The instruments of this research were questionnaire adapted from Rahayu (2020)
and interview. The researcher analyzed the data by by finding the percentage of
each question item in questionnaire while interview data was analyzed by data
reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. This study found two findings.
First, the result showed that there were five psychological difficulties encountered
by the eleventh grade students of State Senior High School 04 Muko-Muko in
English Speaking Lesson, namely lack of motivation, anxiety, shyness, fear of
mistakes, and lack of confidence. Second, based on five psychological difficulties,
there are several factors causing namely no awareness to learn english, no interest
of English, no knowledge of the importance of English, students’ low English skill
in vocabulary and pronunciation, friends’ negative responses, teacher’s bad
responses, and students’ terrible belief in their English skill. To sum up, the next
study is recommended to find the strategies to overcome the students’ difficulties
in English speaking lesson.
Keywords: Difficulties, Speaking