The Correlational Study Between Seventh Grade Students’ Self-Confidence and Their Speaking Skill in Self-Introduction at MTs Darul Ulum Assurur Across Their Cognitive Learning Styles

Self-confidence is an important part of speaking skills, as it can provide enthusiasm. If learners are high in confidence, they will achieve the best performance in speaking skills. Studies regarding the factors that influence students' self-confidence are still very limited. Some previous studies mostly discussed the correlation between self-confidence and speaking. Besides self-confidence, there are other factors that can affect students’ self-confidence, namely cognitive learning style. This research used quantitative research method and by applying correlational design. This research was found that, the product moment score were r_count1 = 0.631 (field Independent), r_count2 =  0.558 (field Dependent) and r_table score were r_table1 = 0.455, r_table2 = 0.349. So, the r_count1 and r_count2 is more than r_table1 and r_table2 (0.631> 0.455 and 0.558 > 0.349). Which indicated that there is a significant correlation between the seventh grade students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill in self introduction at MTs Darul Ulum Assurur across their cognitive learning style. It can be concluded that the field independent coefficient correlation is higher than the field dependent (r_count1 > r_count2 = 0.631 > 0.558) It means that if students' self-confidence is high then the students can speak fluently and it implicate that the teacher should design a teaching and learning process where the students learn independently.

Key Words: Self-Confidence, Speaking, Field Independent, Field Dependent