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LANI SEPTIA SRI PUTRI, No Reg. 2030104033, entitled: “Students’ Difficulties in Speaking English”. English Teaching Department Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Islamic State University of Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research was unrevealed students’ difficulties in speaking English. This research purpose was to find out and describe the students’ difficulties in speaking English of tenth grade at SMA Negeri 1 Rambatan This type of research was a qualitative research, a phenomenology design. The technique used in choosing informants was purposive random sampling. The informants in this research was tenth grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Rambatan who had difficulty in speaking English. In this research, the researcher acted as the key instrument and the interview guide as a supporting instrument. In collecting the data, she interviewed the research informants. To test the validity of the data, she used a prolong engagement, by conducting additional interviews if there was insufficient or doubtful data or information regarding the consent requested by the informant during the first interview. To carry out data analysis, she referred to the theory of Miles and Huberman in Sari, (2022), namely: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and data verification. She conducted interviews based on the interview guide, then analyzed the results of the interviews, and drew conclusions and verified the research findings. The results of this research indicate that there were five students’ difficulties in speaking English. The difficulties where: : 1) difficulty in speaking because having lack of vocabulary, 2) difficulty in speaking English because being afraid to making mistake, 3) difficulty in speaking because being lack of time to practice, 4) difficulty in speaking English because heaving lack of motivation, 5) difficulty in speaking English because having difficulty to relate the conversation.