Exploring Students’ Strategies In Increasing Self-Confidence In Speaking

This research was conducted to find out students' strategies in increasing self-confidence in speaking and to reveal the challenges faced by students in increasing self-confidence in speaking. This research was carried out at the Department of English Language Education of UIN Ar-Raniry. This research used a descriptive qualitative approach. Research participants were selected using purposive sampling. Participants of this research were ten English students from batch 2019. Furthermore, data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The research results show that the strategies used by students to increase self-confidence in speaking are practicing speaking alone, repetition, creating outlines, and listening to English songs. Nevertheless, in increasing their self-confidence in speaking they also faced challenges such as anxiety, lack of vocabulary, lack of self-motivation, and loss of concentration.