Abstrak
The problem of this research was motivated by the obstacles experienced by students when appearing in front of the class which resulted in these students not being optimal when speaking performance in learning English for Simple Speech Presentation at State Islamic University Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The purpose of this study was to determine the affective factors felt by students when speaking performance in the English for Simple Speech Presentation course. The research design was descriptive quantitative. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire of 94 items. Questionnaires were distributed via google form. Researchers used random sampling, with 36 people selected as samples. The results showed that there were four affective factors experienced by students when appearing in front of the class in learning English for Simple Speech Presentation. The first affective factor is the motivation that students have when speaking performance, which is 28.18%, then self-esteem is 27.34%, while fear of making mistakes is 23.30%, the lowest is anxiety as much as 21.16%.