Unconfident To Speak English Essay

Nowadays, English language is become an important language to be learned by everyone. They, who lived in a country where English still become a foreign language, are trying to master all the skills required in English which are writing, listening, reading, and speaking skill. However, although many of them have learned those skills for many years, there are still some them who are shy to practice their ability in English, especially in speaking, even for the students who are taking an English language as their major. After asking the opinions from some students, at least I have discovered that they are unconfident to speak English under some particular reasons. When I tried to ask the reason to the students of why they are still unconfident or shy to speak English, they have their own reasons that is different from others. One of students that I had been asked is Lilla. She is one of the student of English

I think, in this case, those who chose this option is agree with one reason that they usually have to translate the words one by one from bahasa to English if they do not know or forget the words in English. This opinion is also strengthen by the expert opinion, Mrs. Widayati, one of the grammar lecturer. She said that the lack of vocabulary can also lead into the fear of speaking English. That is why students who have the problem in it should try and practice more in that particular problem while continue to practice speaking, too. By doing this, the confident of the students may increase gradually. Mr. Murdjib also added Mrs. Widayati’s opinion. He is one of my speaking lecturer. He said that students should build their own self-confident because if they’re afraid to speak, the lecturer will not know in what matter they have difficulties in speaking and it will remain their problems