摘要：This quantitative survey attempts to explore factors that contribute to English as a
foreign language (EFL) students’ unwillingness to communicate across Indonesian
secondary schools. To this end, an online questionnaire was distributed to the
students via school Facebook pages and Twitter. A total of 158 students
volunteered to participate, of which 122 were female, and 36 were male. The
qualitative data were analyzed statistically using factor analysis, ANOVA,
correlation, and regression. The study findings showed that there was significant
correlation between the unwillingness to communicate scale (UCS) and its two
factors, i.e. UCS1 and UCS2 were significant (r-UCS1 = .867, p < .01, r-UCS2 =
.772, p < .01). These results indicate that students’ unwillingness to communicate
was highly influenced by whether or not students decided to stay away from the
conversation or on the extent to which students valued the communication itself
and vice versa. In addition, the regression analysis of the two variables, students’
risk-taking to communicate and engagement in communication, revealed that none
of the variables were perceived as predictors of the students’ unwillingness to
communicate [language class risk (LCR), β = -.198, t = -2.64, p = .009; and
language class sociability (LCS), β = -.352, t = -4.69, p = .000].
关键词：students’ unwillingness to communicate; risk;taking; engagement in
communication; English as a foreign language (EFL); schools
