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The Difficulties Faced by SoE Lecturers in Teaching Interpersonal Speaking for
English Department Students

Alce Mariani Labito

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find out the difficulties faced by junior lecturers from SoE
in teaching Interpersonal Speaking for ED students. In addition to the first purpose, the study is
also to find out possible solutions done by the lecturers from SoE to overcome their difficulties.
In the study, there are two SoE lecturers being chosen to be evaluated. The data were obtained
through the interview results of the two SoE lecturers with semi structured interview by providing
unstructured questions. In terms of findings, the study revealed that the SoE lecturers have
various difficulties, they faced in teaching Interpersonal Speaking for ED students such as the
SoE lecturers’ anxiety as new lecturers, lack of confidence, inactive students during TLP. The
possible solutions to overcome the SoE lecturers’ difficulties are different from one another. It is
affected by the background of knowledge from each lecturers.
Key words: difficulties, speaking, teaching.