Students’ interest in learning English Students’ difficulties in learning English speaking skill The strategies used by the teachers to improve the students’ speaking skill Students’ previous knowledge of English Students’ level of proficiency

Table 4.1: The Respondents of the Need Analysis Sex Educational Background Teaching Experiences in year Respondents M F D3 S1 S2 S3 1-5 6-10 10 Teacher 2 1 -- 3 -- -- -- -- 3 From the informal interviews, the researcher found out the information as follows:

a. Students’ interest in learning English

All teachers stated that most of the students are interested and very enthusiastic in learning speaking skill. They have higher motivation to learn speaking compare to listening, reading, or writing skills.

b. Students’ difficulties in learning English speaking skill

In general, there are two factors that influence the students’ speaking proficiency. They are external and internal factors. The external factor comes from students’ background knowledge, both from family and previous schools. The students that graduated from good quality of Junior High School tend to be more active in learning speaking. The students that ever lived in foreign country also have better vocabulary mastery and speaking proficiency. The internal factor comes from the students themselves. Most of them feel unconfident, lack of vocabulary and being afraid of delivering their ideas.

c. The strategies used by the teachers to improve the students’ speaking skill

To solve the problems, the teachers always motivate the students by saying that English is easy. Besides, they use pair work and information gap activities in teaching speaking skill. However, the class becomes noisy and disturbs another class. They also made Saturday - English day, but only some students speak in English on that day because they feel more unconfident and afraid of delivering their ideas.

d. Students’ previous knowledge of English

All teachers agreed that the students’ previous knowledge really gives big influences to the students in improving their speaking skill.

e. Students’ level of proficiency

All teachers strongly stated that not all students are on the same level of proficiency. They were accepted in SMAN 4 Yogyakarta based on their National Examination scores and their scores did not guarantee that their English proficiency is good. Only a quarter of the class that has good speaking skill.

f. Students’ characters