DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH OF EFL STUDENTS IN INDONESIA

Abstract

In Indonesia, English is used as a foreign language. Therefore, students face difficulties when trying to speak English. This research was conducted to find the difficulties that influence students’ speaking and to know what are the causes of those difficulties in English class. The design of this research was descriptive method. Moreover, the researcher used observation and interview as the instruments in this study. The result of the research showed there are some difficulties and causes of those difficulties that make students difficut to speak English. That difficulty comes from students psychological aspect such as anxiety, shyness, fear of mistake, and lack of confidence. Moreover, in student linguistic aspect such as lack of vocabulary, poor pronunciation, and mother tongue interference. Furthermore, the researcher found that the causes of those difficulties are not ready to speak, personality, fear of negative evaluation, feel pressured, less reading English literature, less practicing to speak English, and confusion.