Thesis submitted to the Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, State Institute for Islamic Studies Syekh Nurjati Cirebon in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of Bachelor of Islamic Education in

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ABSTRACT

Ririn Rianingsih. 14111320123: The Teacher Strategies in Overcoming Students' Difficulties In Speaking At English Intensive Program Of MA An-Nur Cirebon.

The goals of the research are: (1) to describe the implementations of the teacher strategies in teaching Speaking at English Intensive Program of MA An-Nur Cirebon, (2) to describe the students' difficulties in speaking at English Intensive Program of MA An-Nur Cirebon, and (3) to describe the strategies of the teacher in overcoming students' difficulties in speaking at English intensive program of MA An-Nur Cirebon.

The method of this research is descriptive qualitative research. It takes place at MA An- Nur Cirebon. The participants of this study were an English teacher and all the students who join English Intensive program. The primary sources of data for this research are observation interview and study of document. While, the secondary data of this research are questionnaire, journals and books.

The result shows that the teacher used some strategies in teaching speaking at English Intensive program, there are lecturing, review, sharing, discussion and telling story. But, the students still difficult to speak English. The problems consist of : limitedness of vocabulary, Problem in choosing vocabulary, lack of understanding of grammatical pattern, incorrect pronunciation, and inconfidence to speak. Then, the teacher has some strategies to overcome students' difficulties in speaking, there are: debate, role play, prepared talks, interview, games and brainstorming. It was also found out that the teacher strategy in overcoming students' difficulties at English Intensive program has good impact to the students response.

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