Author (Penulis)

Octika Mardiana
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0099

Abstract

ABSTRACT Speaking is one of the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). It is the way that some people used to communicate each other. They could share their ideas, information and many more orally by speaking. The aims of this research are to identify the speaking difficulties encountered by Eleventh grade students of SMKN 1 Tanjunganom, and too identify the teacher’s strategies in overcoming speaking difficulties. This research used qualitative research design of case study. The instruments used to collect the data were observation, questionnaire, and interview. Observation used by the researcher to get the data during teaching learning process. Questionnaire is used to know the students’ difficulties. Then, interview is used to know the teacher strategies and support the data. The result of this research showed that there are six difficulties that faced by eleventh grade students of SMKN 1 Tanjunganom based on those statements above, such as: ideas, what to say, language, how to use grammar and vocabulary, pronunciation, and inhibition. Second is about the teacher’s strategies in overcoming the students’ difficulties in English. The teacher aware about English is a foreign language to the students, so that she makes a careful choice of topic and base the activity on easy language. Design activities that involve guidance and practice also give students opportunity to speak using group work. The teacher also gives students practice about their accuracy to increase their vocabulary and grammar. Keyword: Speaking, Students’ difficulties, Teacher’ strategies

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-11

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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