Causes of English Major Student-Teachers' Classroom Participation Reluctance at Kuwait University

Classroom participation plays an important role in developing students' oral fluency, and general understanding of the subject content. however, there is a noticeable participation reluctance among english major student-teachers in the college of education at kuwait university. the present study investigates the causes of such a reluctance. the study adopted the descriptive analytical methodology applying a 4-likert scale to respond to a thirty questionnaire items. two domains were covered: the english language professor, and the english major student-teachers. the sample covered a total of 150 english major student-teachers 30 males and 120 females. the study revealed significant differences α=0.05 in the means between the participants according to gender in favor of females-student teachers and according to high school specialization in favor of arts specialization. however, there were no significant differences according to the years of study.