The analysis of EFL students lackness of speaking skills
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EFL Students, Lackness, Speaking SkillsAbstract
Speaking Skills is the most challanging language ability by EFL students. It becomes topic of this research which aimed to collect the experience of EFL students lackness of speaking skills and analyze and examine the experience of their lackness. This study was conducted in qualitative method. The analysis of the data in this study uses the thematic analysis by Barkhuizen, Benson & Chik (2014:74). This research was held in the educational environment of University of Swadaya. The data were collected through quesionnaire and interview session. The result of this research showed that, Grammar is the most dominant factor that affect their speaking skills. And there are so many factors that affect their speaking skils, both from internal factors and external factors. In addition, students can improve their own abilities by learning in a joyful way, like watching movie, listen to the song, etc.
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