AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN CLASSROOM (A study of the Second Semester Students at the English Education Study Program of the University of Bengkulu in the Academic Year of 2019/2020)

The aims of this present study are firstly to find out the extent to which second
semester students of English Education Study Program in University of Bengkulu
are willing to speak English in classrooms; and secondly, to investigate the factors
that influence their willingness to speak English in classrooms. A descriptive
quantitative design was employed in this study to survey 91 students. In collecting
the data, this study utilized an adapted questionnaire consisting 28 items. The
findings indicate that most of the students are willing to speak English in
classrooms. Furthermore, a number of factors are found to influence the students’
willingness to speak, including topic familiarity, topic interest, topic preparation,
topic comfort, challenging topic, group size, task familiarity, seating arrangement,
gender and age of interlocutor, interlocutor familiarity, and fear of making
mistakes. Based on the results, teachers need to take some pedagogical
interventions to overcome the factors that influence students’ willingness to speak
English in classrooms.
Keywords: willingness to speak English in classrooms, second semester students,
English major students, EFL students