A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN EXTROVERSION PERSONALITY, VOCABULARY MASTERY, AND SPEAKING SKILL

Shelia Anjarani, Abdul Asib, Hefy Sulistyawati

Abstract

The article is aimed at investigating the correlation between extroversion personality and vocabulary mastery toward speaking skill of the fourth semester students of English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University in the academic year of 2012/2013; both partially and simultaneously. The method of this study is correlational research. The population of the study is all of the fourth semester students while the sample is 30 students taken by simple random sampling technique. The technique used to analyze the data are simple, multiple correlation, and regression by using microsoft excel. The results of the study show that there is a positive correlation between extroversion personality and vocabulary mastery toward speaking skill both partially and simultaneously. The positive correlation indicates that extroversion personality and vocabulary mastery tend to go up or to go down together with speaking skill.

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correlation, extroversion personality, vocabulary mastery, speaking skill

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/eed.v4i1.34716

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