The current investigation used in-depth interviews with guiding questions to study the attitudes  and motivation as contributing factor to speak English in a residential school. Once the data were  collected and analyzed, case studies were written. The case studies were all organized in the same  manner. First, each participant was presented in a chronological order, regarding their views of  speaking English. The study was carried out in a well-known residential school in Klang, Selangor. There are almost  700 hundred students in this school and participants are students selected in Form Four for the  purpose of this study. The school is situated in a town area. Six participants were selected for this naturalistic case study where their responses were recorded  and analyzed. In-depth interviews, observations and field notes were used as methods in the study.  The data were analyzed using Cohen Kappa's realibilty check to ensure reliability and validity of the data. .....

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