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Che Che Kirani, Reg. No. 2030104010, thesis title: "FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO STUDENTS' RELUCTANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSION IN SEMINAR ON ELT RESEARCH" - English Tadris Study Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, Mahmud Yunus State Islamic University Batusangkar. The problem investigated in this study was the reluctance of students to participate in discussions during the Seminar on ELT Research class. In an academic environment such as this, such reluctance hindered the learning process. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the factors that contributed to students' reluctance to participate in discussions in the Seminar on ELT Research class. This study was quantitative research using a survey with a cross-sectional approach. The research population consisted of 74 students enrolled in the Seminar on ELT Research course, with 53 respondents selected using purposive sampling based on the level of activity categorized as active (51-100%) and less active (50%). The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire about the factors that caused students to be reluctant to participate in discussions in the Seminar on ELT Research class. The questionnaire was validated first by using a trial method on 6 samples. The results of the trial were 17 valid items that were examined using SPSS 25. Furthermore, reliability was carried out with the results of 0.929, which meant excellent reliability. The results showed that several factors contributed to students' reluctance to participate in discussions during the Seminar on ELT Research class. These factors, ranked from highest to lowest percentage, were linguistic (49%), institutional (48%), practical (46%), psycholinguistic (45%), and socio-cultural (44%).