Students’ problems in developing speaking skill at the eleventh grade SMA Darul Hijrah Putra Martapura

The objective of this research is describe the students’ problems in developing speaking skill at eleventh grade SMA Darul Hijrah Putra Martapura school year 2017/2018. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative as the research design. The population of this research is students at SMA Darul Hijrah Putra Martapura and the samples of this research are 36 students from class XI SMA. The samples are selected based on the problem formulation. This research uses questionnaire and interview as the instrument. The finding shows that students problem: nothing to say (58.33%), mother-tongue use (80.55%), difficult to express ideas verbally (58.33%), limited vocabulary (72.22%), limited ability of grammar (72.22%), focused on grammar (61.11%