A Study On Teachers’ Strategy In Overcoming Students’ Speaking Problems At SMPN 1 Kandis

The goal of this is to find the strategies that are used in teaching speaking to the students of SMPN 1 Kandis. Teaching strategies are very important since they determine the success of the teaching process. The students had many difficulties in speaking ability such as; lack of vocabulary, pronouncing the word, fluency and difficulty to string up the word to be a sentence. This research is qualitative design. It is concerned with establishing answers to the whys and hows of the phenomenon in question (unlike quantitative).This research was conducted at SMPN 1 Kandis . The population in this research was English teachers at SMPN 1 Kandis. Researcher took 1 English teacher of population as sample by using purposive sampling. To obtain the necessary data, this study used an observation Sheet. Based on three meetings, it can be concluded that there were several strategies in the first meeting which were not done by the teacher, such as not being flexible about how long it takes to learn step and teach strategies not just content. In meeting two, there were several strategies which were not done by the teacher , such as not having any clear lesson goals, being flexible about how long it takes to learn and teaching strategies not just content. In third meeting the teacher did not tell the lesson goal and also did not built a group work for students