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As one of the importance skills in foreign language acquisition, speaking plays several roles in communication. It helps the speakers to deliver some information, ideas, feelings, and thought to the interlocutor. Yet, many learners still have some difficulties in speaking although they have been learning English for several years. Considering the importance of speaking, this study was conducted to find out the speaking problems faced by the second year students of English Language Education Program, Universitas Brawijaya academic year 2017/2018. The subjects were taken based on the consideration of the status of the subjects as pre-service English teachers which should possess good proficiency in speaking. Using survey design to achieve the objectives of the study, 103 questionnaires were administered to the subjects in the Intensive Speaking class. It was found that the subjects still faced some problems in speaking such as inhibition (38.44%), mother-tongue use (25.47%), nothing to say (20.05%), and low or uneven participation (16.04%). Based on the finding, some suggestions are made by the researcher. In order to solve the speaking problems, the teacher should be able to strengthen the students confidence, maintain the use of the target language, consider the topic of speaking activity and encourage the students to use communicative strategies. The researcher also suggests to raise the issue related to the effective way to teach communication strategies to students for the further study.