Open AccessA CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF-CONFIDENCE AND THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL
Author(s) -
Roysmanto Roysmanto
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
research and innovation in language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2615-4137
pISSN - 2614-5960
DOI - 10.33603/rill.v1i1.1076
Subject(s) - psychology , self confidence , correlation , test (biology) , statistical significance , confidence interval , positive correlation , mathematics education , population , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , demography , medicine , sociology , paleontology , geometry , biology
This research entitled “A Correlation between Self-Confidence and the Students’ Speaking Skill”. The objective of the research was to investigate whether there is a significance correlation or not between self-confidence and the students’ speaking skill of the third grade of Swadaya Gunung Jati University in academic year 2014/2015, the writer obtained the data by the quantitative research. The writer used correlational design. The population was the third grade students of Swadaya Gunung Jati University Cirebon. There were 40 students as sample. The data were collected through interview and questionnaire. The results of this research shows that there is a significance correlation between score of questionnaire and interview. It was represented in the test hypothesis that tobserved is higher than ttable (10.39 > 0.320). So the writer concluded that there is a significance correlation between self-confidence and the students’ speaking skill. Keywords: Correlation, Self-confidence, Speaking skill