STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENGLISH SPEAKING AT EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS AN-NUR TANGKIT ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL MUARO JAMBI

This study analyzed students‟ attitudes towards speaking English at eighth grade students of MTS An-Nur Tangkit Islamic Boarding School, based on what the researcher found during observation and interview, this research focus to analyze two aspect of attitudes affective and conative aspect of attitudes, researcher analyze what the students have expressed during the lesson. Several factors that affecting students' attitudes that have been found by researcher, one of them is peer group experience and students' individual experience of attitudes. Researcher used qualitative method, the data found by observing students and conducting students and teachers‟ result of interviews. The result of the research showed that the students in the eighth A expressed a positive attitude, in the conative and affective aspects of the attitude, the students showed a strong desire to speak English and also the students showed an attitude to support each other, but they also expressed high speaking anxiety when they speaking English