Abstract Name : Miftahul Jannah Student Number : 1706202020013 Department/Program : English Education/Graduate Study Program Title : Students’ Perspectives and Challenges in Undertaking English Speech Program at Oemar Diyan Islamic Boarding School Keyword: Challenge, Public Speaking, English Speech Program This study explores the students’ perspectives, challenges and how the students overcome the challenges in undertaking the English Speech Program at Oemar Diyan Islamic Boarding School. This study used a mixed-method which combined the quantitative and qualitative method in order to collect quantitative and qualitative data. The instruments used in this study were the questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire was distributed to 68 students while the interview was conducted to 15 students. In the first part, it explored the students’ perspectives about the English Speech Program. It was found that the English Speech Program was regarded as an important program to increase the students’ speaking ability (65%) and it brought advantages to the students (51%). In the second part, it gathered the students’ challenges found by the students. It was found that the program had some challenges to the students, namely in choosing the appropriate topic to the audience (69%) and using good and proper language (59%). From the interview, it was found that the efforts made by the students to overcome the challenges were the students independently preparing for the performance, practicing with their friends and consulting to the classroom coordinator.