Factors that cause distraction and lack of confidence in English language students and its incidence on class participation.

Abstract

Nowadays, studying a different language than our mother tongue is not difficult, schools, high schools, and colleges in Ecuador offer the opportunity to learn a new language, this is the English language. However, in colleges know English has become a requirement, which is why Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena offers its students from various majors the opportunity to see the English modules, from which this research project is called "Factors that cause distraction and lack of confidence in English language students and its incidence on class participation". Where qualitative research was carried out in which the main objective is to analyze the factors that can affect the concentration of students in the English class, as well as to identify the emotions that infer the lack of confidence to participate in class. The research project consists of five chapters where there are shown theories that contribute to supporting this research, within which in the last chapter the results are given where it is mentioned that everything comes from our mind, emotions, feelings, and thoughts, to develop strategies to improve our students' skills, first we must take into consideration their mental status, our brain does not work in a better way when it is stressful or has a lot of stuff in there.