THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF CONFIDENCE AND SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BUNGHATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT
The type of the research was correlational study. This research was aimed to test the correlation between the third year students’ Self Confidence and their Speaking Ability at English of Bung Hatta University. The population of this research was all of the third year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University who registered in 2016/2017 academic year. The number Of Population members was 40 students. They were distributed in two classes. To choose the sample ,the reseacher used Total sampling tehnique .The reseacher used two instruments to collect the data. First was questionnaire to collect data on students’ self confidence (x). Second was speaking test to collect data on students speaking ability(y). The result of this study found that there is not significant correlation between the third year students’ self confidence and their speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University. It was Proved by the rxy (.350) is smaller than rtable in the level of significance 5% and degree of freedom “n-2” (.320). it means that the hyphothesis “the correlation between the thirs year students self confidence and their speaking ability at English Department of Bung Hatta University “ Was accepted. The reseacher proposes suggestions.first is for lecturers, in order to improve student’s speaking ability lecturers should consider students self confidence in speaking and make their student’s speaking ability become better. For students , in order to improve their speaking ability, they should build their self confidence with some ordinary self confidence and extra ordinary self confidence. For the next reseachers, they should consider other factors that is correlate with students’ speaking ability
Key word : Correlation,Self Confidence and Speaking Ability