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d. The use of mother tongue
It is easier for students to use their mother tongue in their class because they use it every day. Therefore, most of the students are not disciplined in using the target
language in the learning process. This can affect their speaking skill development. In addition, according to Hetrakul 1995, there are two causes why students
have difficulties in speaking English. The first cause that makes students difficult in speaking English is that the environment does not support the students to speak
English frequently. The environment means people outside class. Those people may think that students just want to show off when they speak English for daily
conversation. The response that students get makes them loose their self-confidence to improve their speaking. Since students do not want to be rejected by people around
them, they use native language in daily conversation. The second cause is grammar. English always deals with reference of time
while Indonesian does not have one. Moreover, there are singular and plural forms that students have to distinguish and still many forms that have to be learned. Most
students are very easy to get confused with English grammar, while grammar is very needed to form a right sentence. If students do not have grammar mastery, of course
they will not be able to produce sentences that are grammatically right. Because the students’ grammar is very weak, they feel embarrassed when they want to produce
English sentences orally. In this case, the researcher’s topic is about junior high
school students’ problem in learning speaking English, there is a possibility if the cause is not only about the grammar but also about the lack of vocabulary or dictions.
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Furthermore, Davis 2011 states that there are ten common classroom problems found while teaching and learning English. The researcher includes some
problems that related to learning speaking. They are:
1 Student is defiant, rowdy, or distracting of others.
In every classroom, the distraction from the students might happen. If the situation in the classroom is not conducive, it may be fault of the teacher, i.e. boring
material or poor classroom management. If it is from the students, teachers should take dominant role to adjust the situation.
2 Personalities between students.
Davis states that not every student in classroom will become best friend. If there is a drama arises between certain students, the easiest solution is to separate
them away from one another. This situation might affect the delivery of material that related to speaking if there are problems between student
– students, and also student – teacher.
6. The Ways to Solve Speaking Learning Problems
Goh Burns 2012, p.133 state that to teach speaking effectively, teachers need a set of theoretical and principles that can be applied to the planning and
delivery of lessons on speaking. Teachers may find students every time they speak their native language. Teachers must be able to convince students to be brave to speak
English. It does not matter if they have very bad grammar. Teachers must convince PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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