Problems of Efl Speaking Among Senior Students of an English Education Department in a Private Islamic University

Abstract

Although speaking skill is predicted to be a skill that will determine whether a new language has been mastered or not, many EFL students still find it difficult to hone their speaking skills. Thereby, this research is intended to describe the problems faced by EFL senior students in Indonesia, specifically at a Private Islamic University in Yogyakarta. This research uses a quantitative method with a survey containing questionnaires distributed to target respondents. The respondents were in their fourth year of study because they were considered having had a large exposure to English speaking. After that, the data was processed with descriptive statistics using the SPSS application. The results show several things that are similar or dissimilar to several other studies. Lack of teachers, fear of making mistakes, lack of opportunities to speak English outside the classroom, lack of knowledge of grammar, native language influence, and the department's educational system are the six major problems according to this research. The highest mean score obtained was 3.64 from the Instructor-related problem category and the lowest score was 1.45 which came from the same category. Meanwhile, grammar is a common problem that occurs based on various studies that are references and citations in writing this report.