The Students Speaking Performances Between Extrovert and Introvert Personality at IAIN Langsa

This study is an attempt to investigate the probable roles of extrovert and introvert personality towards speaking performance of the students of third semester English department at IAIN zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa. The interest in doing this study came the writer because every students have different characteristic or persoalities to increase their speaking performances in the classroom. The writer looking to prove that there are significant differences in terms of reaction between these two categories of people are extrovert and introvert personality. This study used quantitative correlation approarch. The population of this research was the of the students of third semester English department at IAIN zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa, 26 students were selected on the basis of availability sampling procedure and their personality type was determined by using Mark Parkinson Personality Questionnaire. The instruments used to collect the data were test and questionnaire. The test had been tried out by expert jugdment. The personality and the students score were correlated by using Pearson Product Moment. The result of t-test revealed that there is statistically significant difference between the personality types of the participants’ speaking performance. After the data had been collected by using test, the result of coefficient correlation (r) = 0.5891 (strong correlation). It means there was significant correlation between extrovert-introvert personality and students’ speaking performance since the result of t-test was 3,572, whereas the t-table was 2,064. The t-test score was higher than t-table (3,574 > 2,064). It was meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. Finally the writer suggests, there is also a different learning style between the introvert and extrovert students, introvert students prefer to study alone while the extroverts prefer to participate and study in group. Hopefully this research can be useful for achieving more effective English teaching and learning process.