Investigating Students’ Unwillingness to Communicate in Daily English Conversation at Al-Ikhlash Islamic Boarding School in PolewaliMandar

The study aims to explore; (1) the factors that cause of students’ unwillingness to speak in daily conversation in Al-Ikhlash Islamic Boarding School and (2) the teachers’ solutions to tackle the students’ unwillingness to speak English in daily conversation. The researcher used two instruments to gathered the data namely questionnaire and interview. The students answered 11 items of questionnaire regarding the factors that cause students’ unwillingness to speak English in daily conversation. In addition, English teachers were interviewed about the solutions or strategies to tackle students’ unwillingness to speak English. Data gathered were analyzed using descriptive qualitative method. The participants of this research werethirty students and five English teachers at Al-Ikhlash Islamic Boarding School. The findings of the research proved that the factors of students’ unwillingness to speak English in their daily conversation: anxiety, shyness, lack of confidence, lack of motivation, fear of making mistake and lack of vocabulary. The findings also discovered the teachers’ solutions to tackle students’ unwillingness to speak English. Memorizing the vocabulary, create the good system or regulation that can improve students’ skill in speaking, gather in a group and make a discussion, and provide the bilingual area to support the students in practicing their English. This finding suggests that the teachers should be more aware of their students’ unwillingness to speak English in their daily conversation