THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERSONALITY TRAITS AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 11 PEKANBARU

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Based on the researcher’s preliminary study, it was found that different
individuals have the tendency to perform differently while speaking. Most of them
have the tendency to be consistent in their performance. Multiples studies have
shown that academic achievement is strongly correlated with various measures of
individual personality traits. The purpose of the study is to find out the significant
correlation between students’ personality traits and their speaking ability at the
tenth grade of Senior High School 11 Pekanbaru. There were two variables in this
research, variable X (personality traits) and variable Y (speaking ability). The
sample of the research was 30 students. The Instrument of the research used
questionnaire and test. To measure the students’ personality traits, the researcher
used questionnaire that was adopted by Big Five Inventory. While to measure
their speaking ability, the researcher used oral test. In analyzing data, the
researcher used product moment formula by using SPSS.17.00. Based on the data,
it was found that the score of personality was 64.17% “enough category, whereas
the score of speaking ability was 69.93% “good category”. While, the score of
Pearson Correlation was 0.512. It indicates that the correlation coefficient was
medium category with the significance was 0.000<0.05 and the percentage was %.
Based on the data, it can be concluded that there is a positive significant
correlation between students’ personality traits and their speaking ability at the
tenth grade of Senior High School 11 Pekanbaru.

Keywords: Correlation, Personality Traits, Speaking Ability

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