Exploring Preservice English Teachers’ Challenges in Oral Presentation at an Indonesian Public University

This study investigated the factors contributing to pre-service English teachers’ difficulties with oral presentations in the English Study Program at one public university based in Riau province. Oral presentation is one of the essential skills required in academic settings, yet many pre-service English teachers find it difficult to perform well. This study employed a mixed-method research design, combining qualitative and quantitative data collection. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were conducted as the research instruments. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive analysis techniques, while the qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results indicated that pre-service English teachers experienced all three factors of oral presentation difficulties, which are personal traits, presentation skills, and audience-lecturer factor. Pre-service English teachers perceived the lecturer aspect (M=3.51) as the most significant factor contributing to oral presentation difficulty, followed by grammar (M=3.46) and anxiety (M=3.44), which gained the highest mean score. This study concludes that pre-service English teachers still face difficulty in oral presentation at the medium level due to three main factors, namely personal trait, presentation skill, and audience-lecturer factors.