The Relationship between Students’ Self-esteem and Their Speaking Skills at The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK IT Citra Bangsa Bekasi on The First Semester In 2021/2022 Academic Year

endang susilaningsih, linda s; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.;

ADE JUWITA. NIM: 1901059001. The Relationship between Students’ Self-esteem and Their Speaking Skills at The Eleventh Grade Students of SMK IT Citra Bangsa Bekasi on The First Semester In 2021/2022 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education, The School ofTeachers Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka Jakarta 2021.
The objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence of whether there is a significant relationship between self- esteem and speaking skill of the eleventh-grade students of SMK IT Citra Bangsa Bekasi in the2021/2022 academic year. The writer used the quantitative survey method by using correlation technique. The population of this research was the eleventh-grade students of SMK IT Citra Bangsa Bekasi, and the writer only took 1 class (87 class) consisting of 30 students for the sample of the research. The instruments used for this research were the questionnaire of self- esteem and the test of speaking skill. The scores of the two variables were calculated by using the formula of Pearson’s Product Moment.
The finding of the analysis and statistical calculation showed that r observed is 0.349 and r table is 0.93 in the significant level of
0.95 with the degree of freedom (df = n-2) is around 30. As a result, r observed is higher than r table. Therefore, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Meanwhile, by applying t-test, it was found that t observed is 13.6 and t table is 1.70. So, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill of the eleventh- g r a d e students of SMK IT Citra Bangsa Bekasi in the 2021/2022 academic year.