Students’ Problems in Learning English-Speaking Skills at Fastco English Course Blora

Abstract

This research aims to find students’ problems in English-speaking and their efforts to solve their problems. The research design was case study. The technique for analyzing data was qualitative. The subjects were 8 students at major class. They were 6 female students and two male students. The instruments were observation and interview. The results showed that there were 2 aspects of students’ speaking problems, namely linguistics aspects and psychological aspects. The researchers found 9 data caused by linguistics aspects which related to the lack of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Besides, they found 6 data caused by psychological aspects concerned with the students; they are not being confident, passive and nervous. They felt that linguistics aspects were more difficult than psychological aspects. Other results showed that students only had 10 efforts to solve their speaking problems and only 3 efforts out of 14 characteristics of successful language learners. Therefore, their efforts cannot maximally improve their speaking skills.