STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING SPEAKING SKILLS AT DOCTOR NUENG INTERCARE KRABI SCHOOL THAILAND

Speaking is an essential skill that everyone needs to have to communicate with other
people all around the world. The aims of this research to find difficulties in learning
speaking skills at the Doctor Nueng Intercare Krabi School. Specifically for nursing
students for the 2023 scholarly year, the number of students in the class is 18 people,
3 men and 15 women. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method, where
the descriptive qualitative method is a method that attempts to find out the causes
of problems in a condition that is currently occurring. In collecting data, the
researcher used interviews, observation and questionnaire. From the results of the
data that have been explained, the researcher found that there were two aspects of
difficulties experienced by students, namely the linguistic aspect where students
lacked vocabulary (83%), grammar (44.4%), pronunciation (50%), fluency (50%),
and comprehension (44.4%). Apart from that, there are psychological aspects such
as lack of confidence (44.4%), shyness (44.4%), anxiety (55.6%), and lack of
motivation (61.1%). From these two aspects, the difficulties most often experienced
by students are a lack of vocabulary (83%) and a lack of motivation (61.1%)