The correlation between students self-confidence and speaking skill of first-year students of sman 3 bandar lampung

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out whether there was significant correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill and to find out which aspect of speaking had the most correlation with students self-confidence. Applying quantitative approach, this research was conducted using questionnaire and speaking test. The subjects of the research were thirty students at SMA Negeri 3 Bandar Lampung. The data of the questionnaire were collected through Google Form and the speaking tests were gathered through Google Drive. The correlation of the data was analyzed using Pearson Product-moment correlation with the significant level of 0.05. The result showed that there was significant correlation between students’ self-confidence and the students speaking skill with the r- value is 0.830 and the sig. value is lower than 0.05 (0.00<0.05). To find out which aspect of speaking has most correlation with students’ self-confidence, the researcher used Pearson Product-moment. It was found that fluency was the aspect that has the most correlation with self-confidence by having the score of 0.767. It can be concluded that there is correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill.