The Relationship between Students Unwillingness to Communicate, Risk-Taking and Sociability in EFL Secondary School Classrooms

nayadi wijiharjono, s.e., m.m.; herri mulyono, ph.d; sri kusumaningsih, m.pd.;

Stephanie Narahara. NIM: 1401065147. The Relationship between Students Unwillingness to Communicate, Risk-Taking and Sociability in EFL Secondary School Classrooms. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2018.
The purpose of this research was to find the factors caused EFL secondary school students unwilling to communicate. In this study, the writer used the 29-item survey to determine students unwillingness to communicate. This study was participated by 152 EFL learners of secondary school in Indonesia. The technique of collecting data was by distributing the online questionnaire link to all social media: Twitter, Line, and Whatsapp started on Friday, February 9th, 2018 until Tuesday, February 27th, 2018. The result of this study revealed that: a) The result of factor analysis, there are two factors extracted: Approach-Avoidance and Reward factors, b) The result of coefficient correlation and multiple regression shows that the risk-taking scale and students sociability in language classroom scale were negative predictors for students unwillingness to communicate. Thus, it can be concluded that most of the students were willing to communicate, but they have a low level of risk-taking using the target language and also, they seemed to not enjoy the interpersonal communication in the classroom either with the teacher or peers.