| dc.description.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. | en_US |
