The correlation between students’ self-confidence and speaking ability at XI Grade Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru

This research focussed on the correlation between students’ self-confidence and speaking ability at XI grade madrasah aliyah swasta (MAS) babussalam basilam baru. The students problem in this research were: 1) Students fell that they are lack of confidence as the result they feel shy, 2) Students are lack of vocabulary as not knowing what to say in English, 3) Lack of practicing English in the classroom or in the real communication. The purpose of this research was to know of how significant the correlation between students’ self-confidence and speaking ability at XI grade Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru. This research had three formulation of the problem, they were How was students’ self-confidence at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru, How was students’ speaking ability at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru, and was there any significant correlation between students’ self-confidence and speaking ability at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru. The purpose of this research are to know students’ self-confidence at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru, to know students’ speaking ability at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru and to know whether there is or there is not significant correlation between students’ self-confidence and speaking ability at XI grade of Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru. The kind of this research was quantitative research with correlational method. 39 students were gotten by Arikunto formula and saturated sampling techniques chosen from all the population of the subject have chance to be chosen as a sample. They were 17 students from XI-PUTRI until 22 students from XI-PUTRA. For this research the researcher used all the population to take sample. To analyze the data, the researcher use Product Moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 74.42 and mean score of variable Y was 62.06. Besides, the score of rxy = 0.6 was more than rtable = 0,316 on 5% and 1% = 0,408. The result showed that there was any significant correlation between two variables. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and (Ho) was rejected. It was concluded that there was any significant correlation between students’ self-confidence and Speaking Ability at XI Grade Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Babussalam Basilam Baru in high correlation