Speaking seems to be the most important skills of all the four skills because people who know a language are usually referred to as speakers of that language. In reality, speaking is the most difficult skill. The students face many difficulties at the speaking skill. Inhibition, nothing to say, low or uneven participation, and mother tongue use are the kind of students‟ speaking difficulties. This study is to answer questions: 1. What are the speaking difficulties encountered by the participants of EMAS (English Massive) Program in Kediri? 2. What are teacher‟s efforts in solution the speaking difficulties by the participants of EMAS (English Massive) Program in Kediri? Those difficulties were discussed through field research conducted in EMAS (English Massive) Program in Kediri. That institution was chosen as data source to get information about speaking difficulties encountered by the participants, and teacher‟s efforts in solution the speaking difficulties by the participants. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview, observation, and documentation. All of the data were analyzed by using qualitative approach and chose case study as the method. This study found that students faced speaking difficulties. Based on the result showed that: The difficulties faced by children and teenager participants in EMAS are inhibition, nothing to say, and the use of mother tongue. Furthermore, both children and teenager participants found difficulties in linguistics aspect namely pronounciation, grammar, and vocabulary. It is found that the teachers solution to overcome the difficulties in speaking as follow : 1) making the comfortabe class & creating harmonious atmosphere for students to loose the fear of making mistakes and nervousness; 2) creating a freindly and open classroom environtment loose the shyness; 3) accepting a variety of answers from the participants speaking activity to loose the anxiety in speaking; 4) providing appropriate feedback and correction to add students‟ self confidence; 5) asking the students to memorize and enrich the vocabularies; 6) giving authenthic topics and habituate the students to speak english in English class; and 7) giving students same opportunities to practice for their better linguistic mastery (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation).

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