The students’ ability on speaking mastery at the languange center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research talk about students’ ability on speaking mastery at the Language Center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problems in this research focused on the students’ ability speaking mastery on giving opinion topic. Students got difficulties influency, structure, and vocabulay. The purpose of this research is to know the students’ ability on speaking mastery at the Language Center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. To find how far students understand about the speaking mastery on giving opinion topic, also to see students difficulties and find out the solutions from students difficulties in speaking mastery on giving opinion topic. This research uses descriptive quantitative followed by descriptive qualitative. Descriptive quantitative uses to explain the students’ ability and descriptive qualitative uses to explain the students’ difficulties and lecturers’ efforts. The population of this research were 495 students at the Language Center of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research uses proportionate stratified random sampling to take the sample, the samples were randomized, so base on the calculations that have been done there were 23 samples obtained. Base on the result of the research, this study got the description of the data and found that the mean score was 67.60. It means that the ability of the students was categorized enough. Then, the students got difficulties in speaking mastery on giving opinion topic, such as in fluency, structure and vocabulary. Where the students faced difficulties in getting shy, not confident to deliver students’ opinion. Students got difficult to place the word to be a good structure, also students lack of vocabulary when students delivering opinion about the topic. Finally, the efforts of lecturer to solve the students’ difficulties were the lecturer gave the interesting method and strategies such as working in pairs, making group discussion, memorizing, drilling and making a game or warming up before studying