Lack of Confidence to Speak English

if   If any students confront any difficulty in learning English, they are able to observe what successful students do and copy their behavior. Kelly and watson (1986) mentioned that attitude in communicative situation can influence people’s behavior in that situation. Because they feel silly speaking a language in which they know they are making mistakes, they do not have the English to express the concepts that the teacher wants them to express, the topic / activity that they are supposed to be talking about in English is boring, so they talk about something else in their mother tongue.

It    It is commonly understood that students’ lack of confidence usually occurs when students realize that their conversation partners have not understood them or when they do not understand other speakers but sometimes this occurs because they have lack of vocabulary or interest or fear to make mistakes ‘Mistakes are okay because without mistakes there is no learning!’ (Dörnyei, 2002, p. 93).

     To sum up, it can be well said that, ‘Lack of confidence’ is really a headache for both the teachers and the learners, especially of University levels.