Korelasi antara Kemampuan Berbicara Bahasa Inggris dengan Kepribadian: Sebuah Studi di Program Studi Sastra Inggris Universitas Hasanuddin = The Correlation between Speaking Skills and Personality: A Study at English Literature Study Program Hasanuddin University

KHINTAN. The Correlation between Speaking Skills and Personality: A Study at English Literature Study Program Hasanuddin University (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Nasmilah).

The purpose of this research is to find out the profile of the student's personality of Literature Study Program student batch 2017, the correlation between personality factors and speaking skills of the students, and which profile that has dominantly affected the speaking skills of the students. The writer uses mixed methods in this research. They are qualitative and quantitative.

In quantitative method, the writer uses Mark Parkinson Questionnaire to determine the level of the object’s personality and SPSS 16 as the helping tool for calculating the number. Besides, in qualitative method, the writer conducts interview to 10 students of 30 students that become the sample of this research. Based on the result of the analysis, the writer finds out the profile of the students is introverted.

The data shows from 30 students, 26 students have an introverted personality with a percentage of 86, 6%. Meanwhile, there are only 4 students who have an extroverted personality with a percentage of 13, 3%. Then, the writer finds out that there is no significant correlation between speaking skills and personality. Other result shows that students with extroverted personality have a higher score (3, 50) than students with introverted personality (3, 38).
Keyword: Correlation, Speaking Skills, Personality