The Relationship Between Self-Confidence and Speaking Ability among the Private Islamic Junior High School Students

Erniyanti Nur Fatahhela Dewi (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Mentari Pratami (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)

JELL (Journal of English Language Learning
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2024)

Self-confidence has an essensial part to start any actions, especially for speaking foreign language. This research was aimed to see the relationship among students’ self-confidence and speaking ability. The research’s instruments were questionnaire of self-confidence and speaking ability test. This research used regression and correlation analysis to find out the relationship between the variables. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between students' self-confidence and speaking ability. It can be concluded that there was a strong relationship between the variables. Therefore, this research suggested the importance of increasing students’ self-confidence. All of these implications contribute to increasing students’ speaking ability in oral descriptive essays.