EXAMINING THE RISK-TAKING PERSONALITY EFFECT ON STUDENTS ENGLISH PUBLIC SPEAKING ABILITY

Authors

  • Moon Hidayati Otoluwa Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
  • Firmansyah Blongkod Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
  • Novriyanto Napu Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v6i1.3364

Keywords:

correlation, risk-taking, public speaking ability

Abstract

The objective of this research was particularly to find out the correlation between the students’ risk-taking and their public speaking ability. This study focused on the ILC’s speaker in public speaking. This research was examined by using a quantitative method conducted at the international students' conference on students of the English Educational Department in Gorontalo Indonesia in the academic year 2016. In collecting the data were obtained from a questionnaire to measure their risk-taking and oral test to measure their speaking ability further used an adaptation of the formula conducted by Sigit (1999, as cited in Fhonna, 2014) to see the correlation between 2 variable. As the result, the hypothesis of the research was accepted. It had been proved there was a strong correlation between students’ risk-taking personality and students’ public speaking ability in the presenter of international students’ conference. It appropriates with criteria testing the tcount as big as 4,3593 whereas table distribution ttable obtained 2,0932. The value tcount bigger than ttable (4,3593>2,0932). As a result, the hypothesis H0 is accepted, and H1 is rejected. While based on the result of calculation of r Pearson product-moment correlation formula between variable X and variable Y are obtained r= 0,81 and determination coefficient of risk-taking towards students’ public speaking ability was r² = 0,7768 or 77,68 %.

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Author Biographies

  • Moon Hidayati Otoluwa, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
    Moon Hidayati Otoluwa is a professor at the Department of English Language Education at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Her research interests focus on language teaching and linguistics.
  • Firmansyah Blongkod, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
    Firmansyah Blongkod was a chairman of the English Department’s students association in 2015 who has an interest in public speaking. His first research was talking about the students’ perception of risk-taking on public speaking published in 2017.
  • Novriyanto Napu, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
    Novriyanto Napu is a lecturer at the Department of English Language Education at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. His research interests focus on applied linguistics and translation.

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2020-10-10

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

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