The Influence of Personality on English Speaking Skill

Personality is the most individual characteristic of a human being. This study aims to figure out which personality helps students to have a higher speaking score and to discover whether students' personality can influence their speaking skills. This study belongs to ex post facto design with a quantitative approach. For the data collection, there were questionnaires and documentation as the instruments. The questionnaire was adapted from the Five Factor Model questionnaire developed by Deci and Ryan, which categorized the students into introverts and extroverts. The participants were 92 students of the Department of English Education batch of the 2019 academic year at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, which consisted of 51 students with extrovert personalities and 41 students with introverted personalities. Data analysis in this study used Mann Whitney Test using the SPSS program. The finding of this research showed that the result of the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected because the SPSS calculation gets a p-value = .000. As is well known, the null hypothesis is rejected if the significance is less than 0.05, which means alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, it means there is a significant influence between the students' personality and their English speaking skills. Furthermore, the researcher found different personalities among students regarding speaking skills. Students who have better grades in speaking are students with extroverted personalities.