This research was conducted to find out the challenges faced by 10th graders at SMAN 1 Plemahan in speaking English, and the solutions that can help overcome students challenges. This research is descriptive qualitative. Data were taken from questionnaires and interviews, which were then analyzed descriptively. Questionnaires were distributed to 65 students and English teachers, while interviews were conducted with 10 students and English teachers. Researchers collected student questionnaire data online via google form, while teacher questionnaires, student interviews, and teacher interviews were conducted directly in schools.The results of this study indicated that there are two categories of students speaking challenges; psychological challenges, and linguistic challenges. The psychological challenges experienced by most students were students anxiety and confidence when speaking English in front of the class, and the lowest challenge was the students‟ motivation. For linguistic challenges; lack of vocabulary mastery, fluency, understanding of grammar, and pronunciation. Most students experience all the linguistic challenges but the most frequently experienced by students is the fluency in speaking English. The possible solutions which teacher given in overcoming the students‟ challenges are create an interesting and confortable learning atmosphere, ask students to memorize dialogues or texts, providing good pronunciation, ask students to memorize tenses, and also provide example sentence related to daily activities or habits.

Fardah , Inayatul .   (2025). Students Challenges in Speaking Skill at 10th Grade Students of SMAN 1 PLEMAHAN. IAIN Kediri