Tuguis Ahmaddin

The aim of this research is to know whether or not students face inhibiting factors to speak English at English Study Program of Khairun University. This research used qualitative research with descriptive qualitative research design. Twelve students participated in this research were selected by purposive sampling from third semester to seventh semesters at the English Language Education Study Program. Verbal questions consisting of 21 items were used to collect the data before and after the interviews. The data analysis shows that there were a number of problems to speak English at English Study Program caused by some inhibiting factors such as: affective factors, sociocultural factor, age or maturational constrains, aural medium, professional versus academic, environment, learning community, discipline/punishment and school system. English speaking at English Language Education Study Program cannot be applied without solving the inhibiting factors. It can be concluded that to speak English will be effective and efficient when the English students and their lecturers always speak English each other and can make some disciplines to be obeyed in order to speak English at English Language Education Study Program of Khairun University such as: paying a fine, giving a bad score “E”, and so on.

Key words: Inhibiting factors, to speak English