Study on students’ lack of confidence in speaking class at english teacher education department UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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This research examines the students’ lack confidence in speaking at the English Teacher Education Department. The researcher chooses the fourth semester students of English Teacher Education Department. This study uses qualitative research to present the result of the research. The result is needed by the researcher to answer statement of research problem of this study, which is the percentages of student score in speaking, and the cause’s students’ lack confidence in speaking of English Teacher Education Department. Two kinds of data collection techniques are used in this research; those are study document and interview. In study document, the researcher includes the percentages of student who have categories low score in speaking class. The next, researcher analyzes the students who have chosen low score. The second instrument is interview guide. The researcher gets the information with interview to gain student who have the causes students’ lack of confidence in speaking class. The result of this study shows the percentage students’ speaking score in the class and some problem which causes the students’ lack confidence, such as; worry about making mistakes, shy of the attention, feel nervous, do not know the meaning of the words in English and difficult to express the information in mind. Less of practicing in speaking English, less of vocabulary and less of understanding in grammatical structure are causes which make students get difficulty in speaking English. From those problems above, the difficulty in expressing information in mind becomes a dominant students’ lack confidence by students of English Teacher Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.