Authentic Assessment; the Implementation and the Teachers Problems in Teaching Speaking

Nowadays, authentic assessment is considered good to be implemented in assessing the students speaking skill. It helps the teachers to find out whether the students have mastered the knowledge that they learned, authentic assessment also asks the students to perform real-life tasks to demonstrate their ability to apply relevant knowledge and skills. Besides, it integrates the teaching and learning. The aims of this research are to find out the implementation of authentic assessment and the problems of authentic assessment in teaching speaking at Senior High School Adabiah Padang. The type of the research was descriptive research. The interviews with the teachers and observation in the classroom and document check were done to gather the data. The result indicates that the implementation of authentic assessment were not properly yet as the standard of authentic assessment and the problems that they face were related to time, rubric, lack of guidance book and trainings and also the assessment procedure.