An Error Analysis of Students’ Fluency in Speaking III at Fifth Semester Students of PBI FTIK IAIN Langsa

This research investigated errors in fluency for speaking III class of the fifth semester students at English Department of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty State Institute for Islamic Studies Langsa. The research also investigated the lecturer’s solution to solve students’ errors and its direct impacts. This study applied error analysis to describe students’ errors. It is a technique for identifying, classifying and systematically interpreting the unacceptable forms produced by someone learning a foreign language, using any of the principles and procedures provided by linguistics. The researcher encountered that the most outcome of errors in speaking fluency was developmental errors in vocabulary acquisition and proper pronunciation for the words. The researcher executed interview and observation to collect the data. Moreover, The lecturer applied namely CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) in the speaking III and complied with a variety of approach, namely: pair work, role-play, and group work. By using CLT, it had direct impact to maintain students’ speaking ability and reduced errors in class.