STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH ENCOUNTERED BY THE TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMK NU TULUNGAGUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

MOH. RIFAI, 12510174032 (2019) STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH ENCOUNTERED BY THE TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMK NU TULUNGAGUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019. [ Thesis ]

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ABSTRACT Rifai, Moh. 2019. The Students’ Difficulties in Speaking English. Thesis, English Education, English Language and Teaching Program School of Undergraduate Studies State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Nurul Chojimah, M.Pd and Dr. Dwi Astuti Wahyu N., M.Pd . Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Speaking, grammar, pronunciation, psychological This research describes the Students’ Difficulties in Speaking English Encountered by The Twelfth Grade Students at SMK NU Tulungagung in The Academic Year 2018/2019. The objectives of this research were to describe the students’ difficulties in speaking. The research design applied in this research was descriptive qualitative. This research was conducted at SMK NU Tulungagung. The subjects of this research were the students of the Twelfth grade. The research instruments used to collect the data in this research were observation and interview. The collected data were analyzed by reducing the data, presenting the data, taking the conclusion and verification. The researcher used triangulation data to show trust worthiness of the data. The result of the research showed that every student had different difficult in speaking. They are five difficulties in speaking. They are about expression, pronunciation, grammar, psychological, language environment. The students explicitly acknowledge that they don’t understand the meaning of an English word. In expression, they have low vocabulary. The students are limited in vocabulary. The research subject under pronunciation problems with a number of vowels and diphthongs. In accordance with vowel sound substitutions, they were in the form of the replacement of the sound [ɪ] with [ɛ] and [i] and replacement of the sound [iː] with [e]. There were the diphthong pronunciation problems encountered by the research subjects. They monophthongized some diphthong sounds to pure vowel sounds. In accordance with monophthongization, they monophthongized the sound [aɪ] into [ɪ] and [ɛ]. While the students' psychological difficulties are the students’ problems regarding their lack of self-confidence and anxiety. The most dominant problem faced by the students is determined by seeing the highest percentage of each problem from the data which has been tabulated. Based on the research findings in the observation and interview, the researcher concluded that the most dominant problem faced by the 12 grade students of SMK NU Tulungagung is the psychological problems. It is clear that the grammar problem still become barrier that affect students’ speaking performance. While the problems which may affect students’ speaking performance is the anxiety (psychological problem). This emphasized that anxiety plays an important role to students’ speaking performance, whether they have so many ideas in their minds and they seem to be ready to deliver it, if they feel anxious, they cannot deliver their ideas and opinion as flawless as they want. Next, the problem that affect students’ speaking performance is lack of self-confidence (psychological problem). The speaking problem is the pronunciation (linguistics problem). It can be concluded that the most dominant problem faced by the SMK NU Tulungagung is the grammar problems.

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