Lakhasly

Methodology This study is descriptive research since it aims to describe EFL learners' difficulties in speaking.The objective of the course is to develop the students' oral communication, especially conversation including introduction, greeting, leave-taking, asking for and telling time, describing routine, asking about and describing things, asking for direction and location, talking about traveling, talking about pastime and activities, talking about future jobs, and asking for and giving opinions.The participants of the study were first-semester students of the non-English Department of Universitas Tidar who took English as a General Course Class.

Methodology
This study is descriptive research since it aims to describe EFL learners’ difficulties in
speaking. The participants of the study were first-semester students of the non-English
Department of Universitas Tidar who took English as a General Course Class. The objective
of the course is to develop the students’ oral communication, especially conversation including
introduction, greeting, leave-taking, asking for and telling time, describing routine, asking
about and describing things, asking for direction and location, talking about traveling, talking
about pastime and activities, talking about future jobs, and asking for and giving opinions.
To answer the research question “What are the difficulties faced by EFL learners’ in
speaking English”, the researcher collected the data taken from the students’ spoken production
and questionnaire. First, the students were asked to fill in a questionnaire to identify which
aspect of speaking is the most difficult according to them. Next, to confirm their perception,
the students’ speaking score is analysed. The scores were obtained from the students’
performance in doing conversation expressing introduction, greeting, leave-taking, asking for
and telling time, describing routine, and describing things. The conversation was then assessed
by using the scoring rubric of speaking by Brown (2001) and analysed to determine which
aspect gets the lowest score.