The Affective Factors Causing Students to be Passive During the Speaking Class

It was found that many students were passive during the speaking class. This research aims to investigate the affective factors causing their passiveness. It was conducted in a senior high school in Cirebon in 2018/2019 academic year taking 20 students, who were identified reluctant to speak during the speaking class, as the sample. To get the data, the writer used questionnaires as the technique, and described it using qualitative method. Based on the data from the result of questionnaires, 70% of the students’ low participation is due to low self-confidence, or fear to speak. The other factor which takes20 % is lack of motivation. Meanwhile the factor of introvert personality takes 10%. The passive attitudes among the students emerge to be a failure of the teaching learning activity if there is no attention from the teacher to evaluate. Therefore, this invites a challenge for the teacher to cope with it. Keywords—affective factors; passive; speaking class