ABSTRACT

Sumiati, 2021. “ The Speaking Problems of English Department Students batch 2018 In Lambung Mangkurat University”. Sarjana’s Thesis. English Language study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat university, Banjarmasin. Advisors : Dr. Nanik Mariani, M. Pd, and Dini Noor Arini, M. Pd.

Key words : Speaking, problem in speaking

Speaking is one of English skills used to express ideas and to communicate with other people in the entire world with a variety of reason such as: relationship, business, networking, overseas travelling, etc. speaking is a skill which means not only to be known or learn., but also to be practiced. Speaking is not about what should be said only but what people should listen from you to know and to understand each other.Speaking problems are some problems that make someone lacks of speaking ability.

 This research aims to find out the speaking problems of English Department Students batch 2018 in Lambung Mangkurat University. This research was used descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is the students of English Department batch 2018 in Lambung Mangkurat University. The data of this research were collected by using qustionnaire and interview.

The result of this research showed  the students have problem in speaking. The problems were consisted of shyness, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, lack of confident, fear of making mistake, and anxiety. From the problems the dominantly problems is pronunciation. Most of them stated that they lack of vocabulary, afraid speak because they do not know how many vocabulary and to pronounce the words. They were afraid if they made a mistake in term of pronouncing the words and using the vocabulary. Based on the result, it is suggested for the students to be more confidence in speaking. Then, it will be better if the students programs join to the English club in order their making practice regularly and making theirs speaking fluently as one of students was pronunciation