The Correlation Between Students’ Selfconfidence and Interest Toward Speaking Ability at the Tenth Years Students of MAN (Madrasah Aliyah Negeri) Manyak Payed Aceh Tamiang

English is a language used in all aspects of communication, science, and technology. All of them can be actualized through speaking, beside other basic skill such as listening, reading, and writing. Many students do not realize the importance of speaking, therefore, the teacher are hoped to make the students interested in speaking and motivate them to increase their self-confidence to speak English. The students, who have a good self-confidence and interested in speaking, enjoy their learning. They always feel happy and ready to do any task given by the teacher. As a result, they can get a good score in doing the tasks and they also can explore their speaking ability. It shows that students’ interest will drive them to do something. For example, a person who likes singing will sing more and more. Besides, he/ she might be eager to learn how to sing. The case is same as in speaking. If students like speaking, they will try to speak more and more. In learning English, in this case speaking, it is easier for the students if they have high interest. Because it can be made as a tendency to pay attention to and the students can enjoy activities in speaking. From the example above, the researcher assumes that students with higher interest in speaking are supposed to speak more and learn how to speak more than those with lower interest. As a result, students with higher interest will get a better score in speaking than those with lower interest. Besides students’ interest of speaking English, students’ selfconfident also becomes the important element of students’ speaking Ability. In any communication context the speakers is the source of the message and is therefore the most crucial element. What he says and how he says, it almost always create an effect on those who listen to him. His personal characteristics such as dynamism, integrity, confidence, responsibility are of prime importance, and among these characteristics self-confidence is perhaps the most vital. Therefore the researcher was interested to did this research. The purpose of the research is to answer the question of: “Do students’ self-confidence and interest simultaneously correlate with his/her speaking ability?” The method used in conducting this research is correlational study. She took only 30 students as the subjects of the research. She gave each of the students a questionnaire related to the students’ self-confidence and interest in speaking to be collaborated with their speaking score. The research itself took place at MAN Manyak Payed. It is located at jl Medan-Banda Aceh Tualang Cut, kec. Manyak Payed, kab. Aceh Tamiang.