An Analysis of Students' Self Confidence in Speaking by the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department IAIN Bukittinggi at the Academic Year 2014/2015

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<p align="center" style="margin-left:7.1pt;"> <strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p align="center" style="margin-left:7.1pt;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-left:7.1pt;"> <strong>Dian Permata Sari, 2311.043. An Analysis of Students&rsquo; Self Confidence in Speaking by the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department of&nbsp; IAIN Bukittinggi at the Academic Year 2014/2015. Thesis, State Institute Islamic Studies (IAIN) Bukittinggi, 2015.</strong></p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> The research is based on some of the students have low self confidence to use English in conversation. Some of them do not have self confidence in speaking English, because they fear of mistakes and feel shy to participate in English conversation. This research is a mixed method approach, especially sequantial method that collect both of quantitative and qualitative research that aim to analyzed how far is the students&rsquo; self confidence in speaking English and what are the factors that influence the students&rsquo; self confidence be high and low in speaking English.</p> <p> The informants of the research are the sixth semester students of English Education Department which consist of 84 students. The informants are taken by using total sampling for the first research question and snowball sampling for the second research question. This is because the informants have taken all the subject speaking and have learned the element about speaking. The techniques of data collections in this research are the questionnaire and interview.</p> <p> Based on the findings of the research, the researcher finds that 41 students have high self confidence with the higher percentages is 84% that influenced by teacher&rsquo;s factor, group or interlocutor, topic, changes in confidence, strategy, and psychological factors. Other factors that also influence is a motivation, positive thinking, habit, value, and students&rsquo; perception about English. Besides, 43 students have low self confidence&nbsp; with the lower percentage 40% in speaking English. This is influenced by group or interlocutor, topic, changes in confidence, and psychological factors. In addition, other factors that influence are lack vocabulary, habit, fluency, environment, and lack motivation.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <strong>Key Words</strong> : <em>Self Confidence, Speaking</em></p> <p> &nbsp;</p>