Factors Affecting Students’ Speaking Performance in Speech at the Foreign Language Academy of Wakaf UMI Foundation (ABA YW-UMI) Makassar

The aim of this research was to explore and to find out the factors that affected to the students’ speaking performance in speech. The speaking performance can be affected by many factors either it is situation or time allowed around the speaking class. This thesis used the descriptive qualitative method. To analyze the data, the researcher used the semi-structured interview, classroom observation to get the real data on attitude and situation during the speech performance. Five students were taken as research participants in this research. The findings were collected from semi-structured interviewed and observation done in the classroom. The result shows that the factors affecting students’ speaking performance in speech at the ABA YW-UMI were topical knowledge, confidence, time for preparation, anxiety, motivation to speak, listening ability, pressure to perform well and time allowd to perform a task. The topical knowledge, confidence and time for preparation were as the most factors affecting students’ speaking performance