PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) p–ISSN 2614-6320 Volume 4, No. 1, January 2021 e–ISSN 2614-6258 Limitation Vocabulary Can be One of Factor The Students Do Not Want to Speak English |75 LIMITATION VOCABULARY CAN BE ONE OF FACTOR THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT TO SPEAK ENGLISH Rizka Dinda Amalia 1 , Anita Anggraeni 2 IKIP Siliwangi 1 rizkadindaamalia@student.ikipsiliwangi.ac.id, 2 anitaenglish26@gmail.com Abstract English is an International language that is used as an instrument to communicate. As a foreign language it is quite normal if English difficult to learn, because the way to write and read or speak English language is dissimilar whereas in Indonesian language the way to read or speak and write it is the same. Same as student in one of Junior High school in Lembang, some of them do not want to speak English language especially in from of the class. The author guest one of the factor students do not want to speak English is limitation vocabulary. In this article the author try to know is it true that limitation vocabulary is one of factor student do not want to speak English ? To answer that question, the author use qualitative method through questionnaire and interview for second grade student. The result finding that many factor student do not want to speak English one of them is limitation vocabulary, the student said that is no easy to memorize a lot of vocabulary, when they memorize it the feel bored. To make the student do not feel bored the author suggest to use some games in the class to make the student more attractive. Keywords: Vocabulary, Factor, Speaking INTRODUCTION English is an International language that is used as an instrument to communicate has four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. As a foreign language it is quite normal if English difficult to learn, because the way to write and read or speak English language is dissimilar whereas in Indonesian language the way to read or speak and write it is the same. Based on writer’s observation and interview result from some of the students in one of school in Junior High School in Lembang they said that it was not easy to speak English, because English language has different characteristic compared to bahasa Indonesia. In English they need to learn how to write and how to speak correctly, in other hand what they write the word has different way with how they read and speak the word and also they have problem with their vocabulary which means they have limited vocabulary. They stated that to remember a lot of vocabulary is hard. However, in order to be able to speak, students should study and memorize vocabulary. According (Bai, 2018) very important for student to accurate vocabulary learning strategies. Using accurate vocabulary can increase students speaking skill also. Based on (Nunan, 1995) as cited in (Djahimo, 2018) speaking skill is in a lot of tests, people still consider that the skill to speak in the target language is the way to quantify whether or not learners are doing well in their learning process. Speaking skill is one of important skill for EFL to communicate, this statement supported by (Atkinson, 1985) in (Menggo, 2018) Speaking is viewed as a skill in delivering information, ideas or concepts to the interlocutor. Darmadi(2015) as cited in Parmawati & Inayah (2019) defines speaking as a productive skill that can be observed directly and empirically. Speaking skill can make the learners easier to communicate, even though some of EFL learners thought that speaking skill is difficult. Based on Brown et al., 1983 in (Djahimo, 2018) several EFL