An Analysis Of Students’ Difficulties In Speaking English At The Third Semester Of English Language Education Of FKIP UIR

This study aims to describe student’s difficulties in Speaking English in the third semester. In this study, researcher used quantitative research methods. The population of this study was 32 students third semester of University Islamic of Riau students. Data is collected from questionnaire was that are distributed online via gogle forms. The questionnaire was adopted from Nurhadiah Fitri (2019), which consists of six indicators, namely linguistic obstacles, speech processing difficulties, academic and conversational English skills, negative effect, access to speaking opportunities and fluency. The results showed that most of the respondents gave a neutral response to the statement in difficulty speaking english. Which is (65%) Fluency, which means students feel when speaking English the emergence of a fear of making mistakes and when students speak English is not fluent such as many pauses and often repeating words. (63%) linguistic obstacles, this mean that students experience grammatical and vocabulary errors when speaking English. (63%) Speech processing difficulties, this mean that students in their daily activities are still accustomed to using their mother tongue. then followed by Access to speaking opportunity it was (57%), Academic and Conversational English Skills was (53%), and the last is negative effect it was (52%). So, it can be concluded that the researcher analyzed the questionnaire data present the aspects of students' difficulties in speaking English which showed that students' difficulties in speaking English were linguistic obstacles, speech processing difficulties, academic and conversational English skills, negative effects, and access to speaking opportunities. while the most dominant factor of students having difficulty speaking English in the third semester of English Education at FKIP UIR is fluency