HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS OF NAMLEA, BURU ISLAND

The goal of this study was to explore the speaking challenges faced by high school students and to investagate the causes of such difficulties at Namlea , Buru Island The researcher implemented a descriptive qualitative method to describe the speaking difficulties found by high school students at Namlea, Buru Island . The researcher designed an interview to find the data and observed the students speaking. The interview was conducted for each students in some schools to investigate speaking difficulties and the their causes. The results reveal that there were some difficulties faced by student in speaking due to various reasons such as; some students have inadequate English vocabulary, spelling & pronunciation, problem. Students are lack grammatical understanding. This research also indicated several factors that cause the students difficulties, such as; Students’ paradigm, motivation, the lack of language environment support, few chances to practice speaking in the learning process.


INTRODUCTION
Learning a foreign language has always been challenging. It requires internal and external encouragement. (Brown, 2016). In many countries, English is the most frequently spoken foreign language used by various countries in establishing international communication both for the sake of education, business, medicine, banking, tourism, diplomacy, and various other sectors. Among the four language skills, speaking is one of the abilities that students must master in order to communicate effectively with others, particularly foreigners or native speakers, (Wang, 2014). Speaking skills are the main benchmark in measuring success in learning a language. English nextricably linked to a country's development and progress. (Coleman, 2010) describes that the relationship between development and individual employability can be magnified by learning English, which allows for worldwide engagement and cooperation as well as access to research and information. However, for some students, learning a foreign language, particularly of well-known schools on the island of Buru. Therefore, this research was designed to comprehend more about the problems experienced by high school students of Buru in coping with Speaking Skill, Identifying factors that cause difficulties. By understanding the condition of the individual and the student environment on the Buru Island, the stakeholders of Educational institutions and teachers can work together in designing learning materials and strategies based on the conditions of students and their environment.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What kind of difficulties do the students face in speaking English? 2. What causes the students find difficulties in Speaking English?

Urgency of English Speaking Skills
One of the goals of language learning is one's ability to be able to convey our thought orally. Compared to other skills such as writing and reading, speaking is the most important. Speaking is a tool for active communication, which is a core of language to measure the success of one's language learning.
It is a piece of vital equipment for a person to make communication easily (Ihsan, 2018;Nazara, 2011;Shteiwi & Hamuda, 2016) . Efrizal, D. (2012) Added that speaking is a way of communicating ideas and messages verbally.
Humans learn to communicate orally before they learn to read and write.
Humans, after all, spend more time communicating orally with language than they writing the language.
Speaking skill is vital, but learners need more efforts to master it since the speaker must be knowledgeable in many areas, including pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.. Learning English needs to be gradually necessary and developed (Ihsan, 2018). Students experience a variety of difficulties, including a lack of vocabulary, a fear of making a mistake and being embarrassed, nervousness, a lack of confidence, and motivation.

English Speaking Components
To be able to speak English well, one needs to be equipped with several required components in English, (Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010) revealed that in speaking skills required components of Vocabulary, Pronunciation,

Vocabulary
Vocabulary is often a word that is more familiar than a stock of words or a group of words that are already known in a person's language

Pronunciation
Pronunciation means how we pronounce words and can be understood

Grammar
Grammar is also urgent because it is not only about language rules but grammar is to avoid misinterpretation

Fluency
Fluency in a language means speaking easily, fairly quickly without much pause and it is understandable

Factors Affecting Language Learning
There are several factors that influence a person in learning a language. (Lightbown & Spada, 2013) mentions several factors that influence language learning:

Intelligence
Largely, intelligence has been used to describe how well people perform on certain sorts of tests. These assessments are frequently linked to academic success and the relationship between intelligence and learning..

Aptitude
Special abilities that enable a person to achieve success in language learning.

Learning Style
Learning style is to describe a person's natural ways, habits, and preferences in absorbing, processing, and retaining information and skills (auditory, visual and kinesthetic) Personality focus of this research are the difficulties of students in English, especially in speaking skills and to find out the causes of difficulties faced.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
In order to collect the data speaking performance was applied to provide opportunities for students to talk on topics: (Experience, Daily activities/routines, and Next study Plan) was conducted in order to know the background information about the students' prior level of knowledge Then the researchers sought detail information by conducting interview for some students chosen to investigate students' difficulties in speaking skills.

DATA ANALYSIS
In analyzing the data from this study, the researchers used the data from the students Speaking performance and the interview by several steps such as ; identifying, grouping , classifying analyzing and concluding the data found.

Difficulty Faced by Students
This research has showed a meaningful insight into learning and teaching English speaking practices for high schools Students. Some significant findings are presented in this study. In our findings, we noticed that some students have inadequate English vocabulary mastery which makes reluctant to speak English, Richards (2008) stated that speaking challanges appear when a learners are lack of the necessary vocabulary to speak and are unable to put the language into appropriate sentences.
Pronunciation problem, the pronunciation problem is the greatest problem in learning English for student since among the students interviewed we found two students have adequate English Vocabulary, they could understand English written form and they also understand spoken language but they could not pronounce the words well. Rahmaniah et al (2018) reported that in English speaking classes, the majority of non-native English learners have a heavy accent and poor pronunciation, this make them difficult to understand.
Students are lack grammatical understanding, we noticed from the interview grammatical understanding is the second greatest problem among other difficulties faced by the students. The students are likely reluctant to communicate in English because they often put the words ungrammatically. One of students admitted that English needs to be arranged by following rules so he is afraid of making mistakes when speaking.

Causes of Speaking Difficulty
By observing the interview, the researchers noticed that the learners are still incapable in conveying their thought in English orally due to some factors affecting their English development, the difficulty factors are follows: 1. Learners are afraid of making mistakes, worried about criticism or shy. This means the students need more chances to practice their English in order to build their confidence 2. Learners' paradigm English, Some students are also unmotivated to speak English and don't really concern on English because the keep in their mind that English is not their culture.
3. Learners tend to translate their mother structure into English, this often occurs because the learners translate the language word to word. This factor hinder the learners from speaking English naturally.
4. The lack of language environmental support , this factor can be one of the excellent factors to build the students English competence, the school can provide an English Area or English day as the medium to practice the learners' English knowledge 5. The learning and Teaching language is conducted theoretically, Learning English Theory can also hinder the students to practice their English 6. Few chances to speak English when the learning process at school is conducted.
it is indicated that lack of practice is considered one of the biggest factors of speaking difficulties. Based on the research conducted by Aziz (2019), it is reported that a major issue impeding speaking improvement is a lack of practice time.
Learners' motivations, In terms of speaking difficulty, some students stated that it is impossible to master every vocabulary even they learn English for a long time. This situation can arise when the laerners are not encouraged to communicate in English by their lecturers. According to what has been stated, the teaching performance of the teachers will affect on the students' motivation. As a result, it is critical for teachers to demonstrate excitement in their teaching performance.

CONCLUSION
Based on the data that have been collected and analyzed, The result of the research reveals that speaking problems faced by students are linguistics issues including grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Speaking problems appear when the learners have inadequate linguistics knowledge. The causes of speaking difficulties are closely related to the environment, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and students' paradigm. In regards to students' difficulties, the learning and teaching process should be evaluated, develop students confidence, motivation and create the environmental support to give more chances for students to practice their English Speaking.