Abstract:
The aims of this research are to describe the students’ personality
especially extroverted and introverted and to find out the influence of personality
to the students’ speaking skill in the classroom of the second semester students of
Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year 2015/2106. This
research is a mixed method because to analyze and to describe the different
personality, the form of data is in the word form and number.
In collecting the data, the researcher makes questionnaire about
personality. The questionnaire is for identifying different kinds of personality. To
prove the students’ personality, the researcher takes classroom observation while
he also records the students’ performance in speaking class. In analyzing the
students’ personality based on the questionnaire, the researcher uses specific
answer sheet, and then calculates the score of midterm test to find the average
value of introvert and extrovert.
The result shows that the students have different psychological typing.
Some students belong to extroverted personality and some of them belong to
introverted personality. From the 40 sample of research, there are 10 students who
belong to introverted type and 30 students belong to extroverted type. From the
result score of speaking midterm test, the lowest speaking score is 62 and the
highest speaking score is 94. The researcher finds that there are some differences
occured in the speaking score done by the students due to their different
personality. It is proven by their procentage the introverted lowest score on the ptable
is 90% while extroverted is 66.6%, introverted medium score in the p-table
is 10% while extroverted is 30% and the introverted highest score is 0% while
extroverted is 3,3% . it mean the introverted score ≤ extroverted score.
