English Foreign Language Students’ Strategies in Overcoming Speaking Problems

Abstract

This study aimed at knowing types students’ dominant barriers in speaking and their strategies in overcoming their problems. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this study were 12 students of the second semester in physics education study program at Hamzanwadi University taken by opportunistic sampling technique. Observation, interview and questionnaire were used for collecting data. The data analysis was conducted by qualitative methodology. The result finding showed that students’ got problems in speaking, the students’ dominant problems those were anxiety of speaking, unavailability environment and lack of vocabularies. In solving the students’ problem in speaking, the students’ used some strategies those were role-play, telling-story and games.