STUDENTS’ SELF-CONFIDENCE, LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR CORRELATION TO SPEAKING PERFORMANCE

Bahtiar, Nurfiah Rahma and Mahmud, Murni and Salija, Kisman (2020) STUDENTS’ SELF-CONFIDENCE, LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR CORRELATION TO SPEAKING PERFORMANCE. S1 thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MAKASSAR.

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Abstract

The objectives of the research were to find out the correlation between students’ self-confidence and students’ speaking performance, to find out the correlation between students learning strategies and students speaking performance and to find out the correlation between the students’ self-confidence and learning strategies toward their speaking performance. The researcher applied correlational research design. The participants of this research were the students from third semesters of Bosowa University. It consisted of two classes and each class consisted of 15 students. The data were obtained from questionnaire and speaking test. The data from questionnaire and speaking test were analyzed by using the Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) version 25. The research result showed that the students of Bosowa University of Makassar have high self-confidence. It was proven by mean score 72.61 and it can be said it was in high level self-confidence, the students of Bosowa University gained a good speaking performance showed from the mean score in speaking test as 58.20 and it implied that the students achieved good classification speaking performance. The results of this research reveal that the students were high to medium category users of language learning strategies. Social strategy and metacognitive strategy are strategies that are often used by the students’. Based on the result of SPSS analysis about correlation, there was a significant influence between the students’ self-confidence and speaking performance with r = 0.546 classified into strong category. If the self-confidence increases, speaking performance will also increase, there was a significant influence between students’ learning strategies and speaking performance with r = 0.440 classified into strong category, and about correlational between students’ self-confidence and learning strategies toward students speaking performance with r = 0.546 and 0.564 classified into strong category. If the self-confidence increases, speaking performance will also increase and if the learning strategies increase, the speaking performance will also increase. Keywords: Self-Confidence, Learning Strategies, Speaking Performance

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Subjects: PASCASARJANA > BAHASA INGGRIS (S2)
Divisions: PROGRAM PASCASARJANA
Depositing User: Pustakawan Amaluddin Zaihal
Date Deposited: 06 Mar 2020 08:05
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2020 08:05
URI: http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/17400

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