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ABSTRACT Manal Chema, 2315,140. Thesis. Thai Students’ Difficulties in Mastering English at Mattayom 5 Darunsat withaya Islam School Of Patani South Thailand. This research is based on the problems that occur in a number of students of class Mattayom 5 Darunsat withaya. The problems in question are that they do not speak naturally, do not collaborate body language into speaking English in front of the class, and rarely practice speaking English. In addition, students' eye contact does not focus on the other person, lack of confidence, lack of vocabulary mastery so that many of them speak very briefly or the conversations are simple. Furthermore, this study aims to analyze the causes of difficulties in speaking English and to identify the efforts of teachers to overcome students' difficulties in speaking English in the Mattayom 5 Darunsat withaya class. This type of research is quantitative descriptive. The data was collected through the technique of distributing quationner. The data source is grade 5 students, as the supporting informant is an English teacher. The data was processed using the Miles and Huberman Model technique, consisting of: data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusions. Based on data analysis it was found that the causes of students having difficulty in speaking English were lack of vocabulary mastery, lack of ability in writing sentences, when appearing to speak English students were often nervous resulting in them stuttering in pronouncing sentences, lack of ideas for making and developing sentences, and low interest in learning English. The main cause of students' difficulties in speaking English is the low desire of students in learning English. Meanwhile, the efforts that have been made by the teacher to solve problems are that before students design dialogues, they are guided by questions that can guide them on topics or problems that are felt in everyday life, they are asked to ask questions in English. In addition, they are given a few minutes to understand the topic given by the teacher, and he advises them to watch English animated films that have vocabulary that is easy for students to understand.