THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ SELF-CONFIDENCE AND PUBLIC SPEAKING ABILITY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

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Abstract

   The aim of this research is to correlate the third year students’ self-confidence and public speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University. The design of this research was correlation research. The total number of population members of this research was 112 students. In this research the researcher used cluster random sampling technique to establish the sample. The researcher took 30 students as the sample. The researcher used two kinds of instruments; questionnaireand speaking test. The researcher did try out for the test because those were nonstandard ones. This research result was found in general that there was significant correlation between the third year students’ self-confidence and public speaking ability at the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df=n-2). It means that if the students have high self-confidence, the students have good ability in public speaking.Based on the result above, the researcher gives suggestion to the lecturer and the students. The lecturer should encourage the students’ self-confidence in public speaking and the students should increase their self-confidence in public speakingin order to increase their public speaking ability.

Key words: Correlation, Self-Confidence, Public Speaking