A Study Of Extroverted And Introverted Personality And Its Influences To The Students’ Speaking Skill (A Case Study of the second Semester Students of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the Academic Year 2015/2016)

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.