PROBLEMS IN SPEAKING ENGLISH ENCOUNTERED BY THE STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL OF DARUL AMAN GOMBARA MAKASSAR

Every problem in speaking English can be solved by many strategies or efforts. Not only from the students but also from the teacher and all the components that influenced the problems. Regarding to this, the researcher considered it is crucial to investigate the efforts to overcome the problems in speaking English encountered by the students of Islamic boarding school of Darul Aman Gombara Makassar. This research is focused on students’ problems in speaking English. The research was conducted in 2018 at SMA Buq’atun Mubarakah in Islamic Boarding School of Darul Aman Gombara Makassar. Twelve students of XI IIS B class were involved as subjects of this research. Qualitative descriptive analysis was used as the method of this research. The data were collected through classroom observation, interview and focus group discussion. The findings indicate that there are some ways to solve the problems in speaking English encountered by the students of Islamic boarding school of Darul Aman Gomabara Makassar . More practice (the students), increase the vocabulary mastery (the students and the teacher), increase the motivation (student’s psychological), use the interesting strategy (teacher’s method), join the extra class of English (the management and system of boarding school) are the ways to solve the problems in speaking English. Keywords: student’s problems, speaking English