The Problems Encountered by Non-English Department Students in Speaking English

Speaking is one of the difficult English skills for non-English department students. This is because students must understand how to produce good and correct sentences to pronounce. To produce a sentence, they must master a lot of vocabulary and master how to pronounce it. In addition, to be able to master speaking skills, students must also have self-confidence. This research aimed to know the problems encountered by Non-English Department students in speaking English and their causes and to find out the problem-solving encountered by non-English majoring students in speaking English. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research with a questionnaire and an interview to collect the data. The results of this study indicate that almost all students find problems (linguistic and nonlinguistic) in speaking English. Linguistic problems that are often found are a lack of grammar, poor pronunciation, and the last is lack of vocabulary. The non-linguistics are anxiety, shyness & lack of confidence. The factors causing the problem of speaking English in this study were low motivation, habits & mother tongue, lack of practice & opportunity, and fear of making mistakes. To solve the problem of speaking English is to improve vocabulary and pronunciation skills. Some ways to improve it are by listening and singing English songs, watching English movies to understand English sentences, and using Google Translate to look up the meaning of difficult words and how to pronounce them. In addition, to improve their speaking skills, sometimes students also practice speaking in English with their friends or independently

The problems encountered by non-english department students in speaking english at universitas muria kudus

Speaking is one of the difficult English skills for non-English department students. This is because students must understand how to produce good and correct sentences to pronounce. To produce a sentence, they must master a lot of vocabulary and master how to pronounce it. In addition, to be able to master speaking skills, students must also have self-confidence. Based on the explanation above, the purpose of this research is to describe the problems in speaking English by non-English department students in speaking English and their causes. In addition, the researchers also want to find out the problem solving encountered by non-English majoring students in speaking English. In this study, researchers used qualitative research. The participants were students of the Indonesian language and literature Education Department in the eighth semester of Muria Kudus University. Data were collected from questionnaires and interviews. According to the study's findings, almost all students have linguistic and nonlinguistic problems when speaking English. Lack of grammar, poor pronunciation and a lack of vocabulary are three common linguistic problems. Anxiety, shyness, and lack of confidence are non-linguistics. The factors that caused the problem of speaking English in this study were low motivation, the habit of not using English in communication & mother tongue, lack of practice & opportunity, and fear of making mistakes. Some ways to improve it are by listening and singing English songs, watching English movies to understand English sentences, and using Google Translate to look up the meaning of difficult words and how to pronounce them. In addition, to improve their speaking skills, sometimes students also practice speaking in English with their friends or independently. The conclusion of this research is the speaking English ability of eight-semester students of Indonesian Language and Literature Education at Universitas Muria Kudus was at a low level and needs to be increased. Thus, students must study hard and practice more to improve their speaking English skills. To improve speaking skills, students can take special training, or also join English language programs organized by English student organizations