Students’ Oral Classroom Participation: What Influences Them to Speak Up?

Studies on oral participation in the English classroom have been recently conducted. These reveal that there is a growing awareness that oral participation can have consequences beyond the success of language learning. Factors that influence students’ oral classroom participation might vary. This research is mainly attempted to identify the factors that influence students’ oral classroom participation in English classroom. A qualitative study was employed where the data taken from observation and questionnaire to 54 students of English Tadris Department at The result of the study showed that factors related to Role of Faculty, logistics, grading and personality traits gave strong influence toward students’ oral classroom participation. Specifically, interesting topic selection and supportive classmates impact the level of their participation. Thus, it is expected that this research, considering the influenced factors, can give contribution to English lecturers, the other researcher, and the students on how to promote the level of participation become more active, confident, and creative to participate in classroom orally.