| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to find out what English speaking problems are experienced by 3rd semester English students at HKBP Nommensen University in Medan and find out what causes these English speaking problems to occur. Researcher conducted this research for third semester students majoring in English at HKBP Nommensen University, Medan. This research has been carried out using qualitative methods. The objects of this research were 20 third semester students from group A and Group B, English Department at HKBP Nommensen University, Medan. In collecting data, researcher used observation, interviews and also sent questionnaires to participants. After collecting data, the next stage carried out by the researcher was analyzing the data. Which in analyzing data uses the theory of Miles and Huberman (2014). After analyzing the data, researcher found that students majoring in English did have problems in speaking English. From the data found, there are around 85% of students who have problems in speaking English and experience obstacles. And there are also around 80% of students who experience limited vocabulary and because of limited vocabulary mastery, 50% of students experience disfluency when they want to form the sentences discussed. This is because students have obstacles, lack of knowledge, lack of practice with other participants and because they still use their mother's tongue in their lives and activities, apart from that they feel insecure and lack of practice. From the data obtained, the researcher concluded that there were indeed problems in English speaking among third semester students. | en_US |
