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Lack Of Confidence In Speaking English Language Essay

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INTRODUCTION
English is known as the world’s most widely spoken language. According to Hammond (2014), there were between five to seven million people who spoke in English around five hundred years ago which majority of them living in the British Isles. Today, up to 1.8 billion people from all around the world speak English. English has now become the new international language. The number of people who speak English as their second language are greater than the number of people who speak English as their first language. The reasons why English has become so prominent is because English is the language of business. Other than that, popular American culture has promptly spread throughout the whole world which has brought its language …show more content…

The requirement in the modern language classes may enhance students’ anxiety, as they are exposing their weaknesses in front of others. Consideration of learner anxiety in the modern language classes is regarded highly crucial in order to help English learners promote their communication skills in English. Generally, English is not a daily language for most Malaysian people. Frequently, when students are out of English class or formal setting, they always speak their native language.
In response to this possible concern, a research to investigate the issue is set up. The purposes of the study is to investigate factors that causes students’ lack of confidence in speaking English and ways to overcome the factors.
Lack of confidence in speaking English will hinder people from communicating interactively with others in a particular context. Hence, the findings of this study is important to help people to study the factors that causes the lack of confidence in speaking English. With the information at hand, those problems could be overcome and people would have stronger determination to interact in English.
The study of the factors that causes students’ lack of confidence in speaking English and ways to overcome it involved the participants of 30 students from IIUM who are not majoring in English

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