The Students' Needs in Developing Learning Materials for Speaking Skills in Indonesia

This research was aimed to explore the students’ needs in the learning materials for speaking skills. The problems were what the students’ needs in the learning English speaking skills which include the needs of contents, the learning media, activities of learning, interesting topics, and students’ learning styles. The questionnaire was used to obtain data from the students.  It was suggested that the lecturers would design and develop the learning materials for speaking skills based on the students’ needs. Keywords: Students’ needs, learning materials, speaking skills