The Correlation between the Students’ Extrovert-Introvert Personality and Their Achievement in Speaking

Abstract

This study is about The Correlation between Students’ Extrovert-Introvert Personality and Their Achievement in Speaking. The objective of this research is generally attempted to investigate the correlation between students extrovertintrovert personality at the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Berampu in the academic year 2018/2019. The method used in this research is quantitative research and correlation analysis technique. The data were calculated statistically by Person Product Moment Correlation. The data were collected through questionnaire, test, interview, and documentation. This research is started by collecting theory after that giving the students personality test to the eighth grade of SMP N 1 Berampu and then classifying the extrovert student and introvert student. Then, after classifying students’ personality, the researcher gave a speaking test with interview the students. After scoring the students’ speaking ability, the researcher found the average of all students’ speaking score is enough. If we classifying the average students’ speaking score based on their personality, the average of students’ extrovert speaking score is good and the average of students’ introvert speaking score is enough. After calculating the data is found that the t-score (3.252) > table (1.300). The result of the study shows that there is a significance correlation between students’ personality trait (extrovert-introvert) and students speaking achievement.