Damalis (2017) The Influence of Personality Traits and Language Learning Strategies toward Students’ Speaking Ability at Language Development Center of UIN SUSKA Riau. Thesis thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to find out the influence of student’s personality traits and language learning strategy toward their speaking ability at the second level students of Language Development Center of UIN SUSKA Riau. This research was a Correlational Research which consisted of three variables; two independent variables, which were students’ personality traits and language learning strategy, and one dependent variable which was the students’ speaking ability. The respondents of the research were 124 students of psychology faculty of UIN SUSKA Riau. The sampling technique used in this research was total sampling technique. The instruments used to obtain the data were two questionnaires to measure students’ personality traits and language learning strategy and an interview to measure their speaking ability. The data presented were extroversion which was the most dominant personality trait and metacognitive which was found to be the most dominant strategy used by the students. Besides, the students’ speaking ability was in medium level. After analysing the data by using simple regression, the finding showed that conscientiousness and metacognitive had a major influence toward speaking ability. It also indicated that there was a significant influence of students’ personality traits and language learning strategy toward their speaking ability, in which F= 5.734, p=0.004<0.05. Then the percentage of the influence of students’ personality traits and language learning strategy was R 2 =0.087 (8.7% ). Therefore, an alternative hypothesis was accepted and the null hypothesis was rejected.

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