ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ABILITY FOR OFFERING AND SUGGESTING BY THREADS AS A MEDIA AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA BINTANG LANGKAT IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024

English Speaking Skills

Abstract

This research is aimed to find the students’ difficulties and the most dominating factor as a cause of students' difficulties in speaking ability for offering and suggesting by threads as a media. This was Descriptive Qualitative research. The subjects of this research were 20 students from XI-IPS at SMA Bintang Langkat in academic year 2023/2024. The data was collected from the interview, documentation and Speaking test. The speaking test used Threads application as a media. The result of this research showed that the students’ difficulties in speaking were related to grammar, pronunciation, and comprehension. Furthermore, the most dominant factor causing students' difficulties are students did not give more attention to the teacher and talking with friends when learning, seldom talked and practiced, had mood disorder, did joke with friends, less motivation, and the teacher still used conventional method. Based on the test of speaking using Threads, most of students are interested to learn using Threads Application, it could be seen in pre observation the total score was 1.041 beside in the speaking test through Threads application the students score was 1.424. It means that there are 383 as improvement score. Another reason, there is no students had taken KKM score in pre-observation test but there are eleven students who take KKM score in the test of speaking by using Threads.