The English Speaking Problems of Thai Students In Learning English at English Department of University Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

Huayluek, Nurainee (2024) The English Speaking Problems of Thai Students In Learning English at English Department of University Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: Speaking problems, Thai students, Language.

Nowadays English is the international language. It is the main language that humans on Earth use to communicate with each other in the world, but for having a mother tongue that is not English. There might be some obstacles for them to learn English. which Thai people are one of them Thailand uses Thai as the native language and English is rarely used in everyday life. Therefore, they have some difficulties with their speaking skills.
The purpose of this study was to find out the problems of speaking English from Thai students in learning English department at the UIN Khas Jember: sociolinguistics perspectives. This study focused on knowing what and because of what Thai students have problems Vocabularies, grammar and pronunciation are a problem in Thai students' learning and speaking English.
The researchers used qualitative method. In collecting data, researchers used observation and interviews. The research tries to explain the speaking problems of Thai students in UIN Khas Jember. The totals of students in this research are 5 Thai students. All of them are girls and boys who are students of English department of UIN Khas Jember.
The result showed from observation and questionnaire which was given that the students’ problem in learning speaking were students’ perception that they did not know vocabularies and most of the vocabularies is advanced vocabularies which is used in learning. Therefore, making it difficult to understand because the large senders will only be able to extinguish the basic vocabularies limited of grammar knowledge. Most of them focus on memorizing but not actually practicing. So only the theory, but the principles can't really be applied. The reasons of the problems were because different pronunciations of different countries had never been practiced by speaking English with foreigners, minimum opportunities and nervousness. The students had the most problems with listening to English. The main reason is the rate of the listening practices. When a native speaker speaks at a rate that is too fast, due to unfamiliarity with the words. They need to listen to the lines with the speaker speaks slowly and clearly. They can listen to conversations with basic everyday words about themselves, family, trading, news events. The sentences that are understood are usually not long and do not contain complex words. Based on the data interview and gave the questionnaire to the students, the cause of the problems in learning speaking were inhibition because they felt often inhibited about trying to say something using English, then, nothing to say; the students had low motivation to express something used foreign language, environment factor; the students had no good environment to support their learning in speaking and mostly mother tongue used; almost all students were influenced by their mother tongue.

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