PROBLEMS FACED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS THROUGHOUT TEACHING SPEAKING AT ASASUDDEN WITYA SCHOOL MUANG YALA MELAYU BANGKOK SOUTH OF THAILAND IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Key words: Teaching Problems and Teaching Speaking.
As an international language, English is learnt in many countries today
include Thailand. One of the country side that learn English as Foreign language
in Thailand is South of Thailand. Most of the citizens in South of Thailand speak
“Melayu Kampung”. They learned English only in the school without use it in
their daily and as the result the speaking ability of the students at Asasudden
Witya School was bad. Regarding English as foreign language, many problems
appear during teaching and learning English, especially in teaching speaking.
Therefore, the researcher conducted a research to know about the problems faced
by the English teachers throughout teaching speaking at Asasudden Witya School
Muang Yala Melayu Bangkok South of Thailand in the Academic year 2014/2015
and the English teachers’ efforts in overcoming those problems.
This research method used qualitative research design. The researcher had
to observe the teaching speaking at Asasudden Witya School for about 3 months.
The eight English teachers at Asasudden Witya School were the subject of the
research and researcher as the instrument of the research. To ease the researcher in
gathering the data, the researcher used observation and made interview as the data
collection technique.
The result of the research shows that there were complex problems faced
by the English teachers throughout teaching speaking that not only came from
English teachers as the subjects of the research, but also came from students,
supporting facilities and also school. This condition was supported by the fact that
from 24 hours and 5 minutes teaching hours in a week English is studied for three
hours a week and there were 14 subjects had to teach every week. It can be
concluded that from 100% of teaching hours, English got 12.5%.
Based on the research was conducted, it can be concluded that problems
faced by the English teachers throughout teaching speaking are described as
follows: 1) Internal problem: students’ rule and teachers’ method; 2) External
problem: (a) Students’ problems: low interest and motivation, the lack of self
confidence, the lack of discipline, students’ poor background of English
knowledge; (b) Supporting facilities problems: the unavailability of language
laboratory and inappropriate text book; (c) School problems: School rules and
unavailability of native speaker .