The correlation between self confidence and speaking mastery at the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain Panyabungan

This research discussed about the correlation between sslf confidence and speaking mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain Panyabungan. There were problems that related to speaking, such as lack of vocabulary, felt shy to speak, got nervous, being laugh, mother tongue used and lack of practice. All of these problems were characteristic of low self confidence. Self confidence is important to increase students' ability in mastering speaking because it can give brave, enthusiam and stimulation to students. So, self confidence has role in speaking to be successful. The formulation of this research were: 1) How is the students' self confidence at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain?, 2) How is the students' speaking mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain?, 3) Is there any significant correlation between selff confidence and speaking mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain?. The objectives of this research is to describe the students' self confidence and speaking mastery, and to find out the correlation between self confidence and speaking mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain Panyabungan. The kind of this research was quantitative research with the correlational research type. The population of this research was 60 students from the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain Panyabungan. This research chose all of the population as the sample by using total sampling technique. Instrument of collecting data were questionnaire for students' self confidence and speaking test for speaking mastery. The researcher collected the questionnaire and took video of speaking test. The data have been analyzed by pearson product moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found the mean score of self confidence was 77.4 and the mean score of speaking was 81. Besides, the result of data analysis at the coefficient correlation between two variables was 0.1408 (rxy = 0.1408). Based on this result, it showed that there was a significant correlation between self confidence and speaking mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA IT Al-Husnayain, but in very low correlation category. It meant the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and hypothesis (Ho) was rejected