Students' Perception About their Self-Confidence in speaking English: A study at ELSP Batch 2023 = Students' Perception About their Self-Confidence in speaking English: A study at ELSP Batch 2023

Self-confidence is one component every student must have, especially when speaking English. To be confident in speaking English, students need to pay attention to the factors that influence their confidence in speaking. This research aims to discover the factors and the most dominant factor that influence the self-confidence in speaking English perceived by the students. There were 34 students of ELSP Batch 2023 Hasanuddin University as the sample of this research. In revealing the data, the researcher used mixed methods. The data were collected through a questionnaire via Google Form. The questionnaire findings revealed that there are linguistic and psychological factors that affect students’ self-confidence in speaking English. The psychological factors are fear of making mistakes, shyness, anxiety, and Insecurity. Other psychological factors perceived by students are lack of motivation, nervousness, criticism, and people's judgment. The linguistic factors are grammar, vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and comprehension. The research concluded that the most dominant factor influencing students’ self-confidence in speaking English is the psychological factor. A total of 70.6% of students chose psychological factors and 29.4% chose linguistic factors.

Keyword : Perception, self-confidence, speaking skill, psychological factors, linguistics factors