Reticence In Speaking English Of The Eleventh Grade Students Of Perbankan Syariah Program Of Smk Tamansiswa Kudus In Academic Year 2015/2016

Reticence on the part of students in second or foreign language classrooms has received increasing attention in recent decades (Jackson, 2002; Liu & Jackson, 2009; Tsui, 1996). Such reluctance and passivity will make them lose their motivation in learning the language. It is assumed that when people speak in a second or foreign language, they become more apprehensive and tense and thus more unwilling to participate in conversation (Horwitz et al., 1986; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1989). It is, however, interpreted as a barrier for language learning practice since in-class participation is thought of as an activity that can develop learners’ ability to apply the newly-learnt knowledge. This reticence in speaking English is also happen in the eleventh grade of perbankan syariah program of SMK Tamansiswa Kudus. Most of students in that class get low scores and just few that got good score in speaking test. Therefore analyzing the problem about this reticence situation is important. This study aims to find out the level of students’ reticence and the factors that contribute students’ reticene in the eleventh grade Perbankan Syariah program of SMK Tamansiswa Kudus in speaking English in academic year 2015/2016. This research is a phenomenological qualitative research. The data are collected through close-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire data is analyzed through taking the percentage of the students’ response. The result of data analysis shows that they got low percentage, that is 50,35%. It means the students’ reticence level is bad. The students suffer for a serious kind of reticence in speaking English. The data alo showed the analysis of the factors contribute students’ reticene are students’ attitude toward learning English which got 45,75% and categorized as low , students’ motivation which got 45,5% and categorized as low and teachers’ teaching style which also got low percentage, that is 49%. The result reveals that the students’ have negative attitude toward learning English, have low motivation in speaking English and students think that their teacher is also lack of creativity in the teaching style. So, all of that factors are contribute to make the students become reticence in speaking English. By the result of this research, it is suggested to the English teacher to take advantage of this research result in designing English lesson and the students to not be reluctant in expressing their opinions in speaking English