AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ CHALLENGES IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT SMP 4 BANDA ACEH

This study aims to identify the factors of difficulty faced by teachers when teaching speaking to students at SMP Negeri 4 Banda Aceh for the 2023/2024 academic year. This research is a qualitative descriptive research. The subjects of this research were a teacher who taught in class and two students. Data collection techniques are observation, interviews and documentation. There was an English teacher and two students who were interviewed by the researcher to obtain data about the difficulties faced by the teacher when teaching spoken English to class students. The research
results show that there are several challenging factors faced by teachers, both coming from students and teachers themselves. The challenges include: lack of student interest in learning English, lack of vocabulary of students, students who find English difficult and unpleasant, unattractive teacher teaching methods, teachers should also equip themselves with technology to be able to be creative,
interesting and effective.