Students’ Perception on Their Self-Confidence in Practicing English Language

Self-confidence is one of the essential subjects in speaking skills. Therefore, this research aims to find out English students’ factors that influence their self- confidence in speaking English. This study utilized mixed methods for analyzing and questionnaires (open-ended and close-ended questions) for collecting the data. The survey conducted on 47 English education students department batch 2017 at UIN Ar-Raniry which were 20 % of the population. The result of this research is that some factors affect students’ self-confidence in practicing English. The factor are psychological and linguistic. The psychological factors are fear of making mistakes, shyness, anxiety, lack of motivation, worried about misunderstanding, feeling ashamed to speak English, thinking in Indonesian language, lack of material to present, introverted personality, nervous, People’ Judgment and worries because of accents. The linguistics factor is grammar, vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and comprehension skills. Psychological as dominant factor appeared in this study.