Guzmán, Cesar AugustoContreras Cárcamo, Mauricio SalvadorMartínez Martínez, RicardoHernández Torres, Karla MelissaQuinteros Meléndez, Crucita Evangelina2024-01-292024-01-292018-07-18https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14492/13913In learning English as a Foreign Language, Speaking is one of the four basic macroskills of language and it is the most important productive skill that a student must develop in their teaching-learning process. However, after observing attitudes and behavior of the students in the English classrooms, certain students’ reluctance to speak English has been found. But what reluctance means? According to the dictionary of Cambridge this means the feeling or showing aversion, hesitation, or unwillingness to do something. The following research work was done with the purpose of identifying the causes of the students’ reluctance to speak English inside the classroom in the Advanced Intensive English I course from the B. A. in English Teaching, semester II-2017 at the Foreign Language Department, School of Arts and Sciences at the University of El Salvador. Also, to list the most common causes of the students’ reluctance and provide some recommendation to the students to minimize the problem.es-SVEnseñanza del idioma inglés420Thesis