THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS' SELF-CONFIDENCE AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT SMPN 2 KADIPATEN

Abstract

This study aims to identify the correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking ability of seventh-grade students at SMPN 2 Kadipaten. This study was designed to investigated the correlation between two variables. There was self-confidence as the independent variable and speaking ability as the dependent variable. This study involved 43 students as a sample of seventh-grade at SMPN 2 Kadipaten. As a tool to measure self-confidence, a questionnaire adopted from Lauster (2012) was used, and speaking score from English teacher was used to measure speaking ability. After conducted validity and reliability tested, the researcher distributed the self-confidence questionnaire to the sample. Then, used T-test Correlation in SPSS 25. The data was analyzed with the correlation between self-confidence and speaking ability. The results showed that the sig_value of 0.757 > 0.05 and the r_value = 0.049. The alternative hypothesis H_a was rejected, and the null hypothesis H₀ was accepted. Therefore, self-confidence was not correlated with the speaking ability of seventh-graders at SMPN 2 Kadipaten.

Keywords: Correlation, Self-confidence, Speaking Ability