This study examined the production of fillers used in English Language Teaching
students’ speeches and investigated the types and the reason of fillers used of EFL
students. This report found the types of fillers used by EFL learners; lexicalized
filled pauses and unlexicalized filled pauses and several reasons of using fillers in
doing a presentation. The researcher used observation, questionnaire and
interview to find the data. Descriptive qualitative method and percentage were
used to analyse the data. This study aimed to introduce the types and the reasons
of fillers and to increase the learners’ awareness of fillers when they hesitate in
the foreign language, which is actually the very nature of speaking.