THE DIFFICULTIES OF SPEAKING ENCOUNTERED BY THE STUDENTS AT ENGLISH COURSE

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: 1) to analyze what are the difficulties of speaking encountered by the students, 2) to know what are learning styles that students prefer to use in learning speaking. The researcher applied qualitative method and analyzed the data by using descriptive analysis. thirteen respondents involved in this research. The instrument used in this research were observation and questionnaire. The result of this research shows that all respondents involved in this research have difficulties in speaking. There were five difficulties that found in this research. The first was pronunciation 3.53%, the second was vocabulary 3.46%, the third was grammar 3.07%, the fourth was translation 3.07% and the last was self-confidence 3.07%. While on learning style, there were 85% students agreed on kinesthetic learning style as the best way in learning a language, followed by auditory learning style 69% and the last was visual learning style 54%.