Self-Esteem And English Speaking Competency: A Correlational Study

This research aimed to discover the level of students’ self-esteem and to find out the correlation between students’ self-esteem and speaking competencies. The researcher used quantitative approach in this research. The sampling technique of this research was a simple random sampling technique and collects the data from questionnaire and document analysis. The sample of the research was at the 8th and 10th semester English department of UIN Ar-raniry, which consisted of 100 students. The research findings showed that the self-esteem level of students is moderate self-esteem. Based on data analysis, where the number of students who have high self-esteem are 37 students, moderate self-esteem are 55. while students who have low self-esteem are 8 students. There was no correlation between self-esteem and speaking competence. The results show that p value was 0,342. It indicated no correlation because p value was higher than 0,05. In addition, from the r value also showed that between self-esteem and speaking competence had very low correlation. It was concluded that self-esteem level of students is moderate self-esteem and There was no correlation between self-esteem and speaking competence.