Volume 8, No.

1, February 2017 Agus Rofi’i

A Comparative Analysis on Extrovert and Introvert Students

Towards Their Speaking Skill

Agus Rofi’i

Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,

University of Majalengka
E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract
This study is an attempt to examine about the extrovert and the introvert students’
speaking skill at the eleventh grade of Senior High School. The samples of this
research were 44 students. The design in this research was comparative analysis
design. The data were obtained through personality test whether the students are the
extrovert or introvert after that the researcher used simulation and role-play
technique for testing the students speaking skill. The data were analyzed by using t-
test formula to investigate whether there are significant difference result between the
extrovert and the introvert students in their speaking skill. The result of the
calculation shows that there is no different result between the extrovert and the
introvert students in their speaking skill. Groups, the extrovert and the introvert
students can perform better English speaking skill through their own way of
learning. Hopefully this research can be useful for achieving more effective English
teaching and learning process.

Keywords: Comparative Analysis, Extrovert, Introvert, Speaking Skill

Introduction their mistake in pronunciation or grammar

In our countries, the international or they can get correction from their
language that students learn in school is friends who mastered in English. But not
English. In English, there are four skills every student can do this, some students
that must be mastered by the students. will ashamed when they should speak in
There is reading, speaking, writing and English. And it can minimize their
listening. Furthermore, based on the opportunity to learn. Furthermore, we can
researcher’s experience, there is another conclude that there are two kinds of
aspect that can influence in learning students in learning English, first, students
speaking English that is public speaking. that they are good in public speaking so
By public speaking, students have a they can speak English every time, and the
chance to learn more in communication second is the students who ashamed when
with English naturally, they will recognize

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they should speaking English. That enduring and underlying causes and
problem is based on the differences of individual behavior.
their personality. Personality has so many terms, now
Since the beginning 0f 1990s, there we focus on terminology of Carl Gustav
has been a growing interest on how Jung which is established on 1921-1971.
personality correlates to the academic According to Jung, personality type is
performance. Scholar like Rod Ellis in divided into two. They are extrovert and
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics introvert (Wilde, p.2). Here are Jung
edited by Davies (p.81) describes a explains that, extroverts are more
finding that from 6 out to 8 studies that influenced by their surroundings than by
employ oral language test extroverts their inner world while introverts are
performed better than introverts. While tuned in to their inner world with all its
Murray and Mount stated that “an biases, fantasies, dreams, and
individual’s personality can have an effect individualized perceptions (Feist, Gregory
on to what extent he is able to achieve J. Feist, p.122). According to Jung,
information (p.270). extroverts are more influenced by their
There are some experts who try to surroundings than by their inner world.
define the word of personality such as And the introverts are tuned in to their
Robert B. Ewen (p.4) said that, inner world with all its biases, fantasies,
“Personality refers to the important and dreams, and individualized perceptions.
relatively stable characteristics within a Based on the definition above, it can be
person that account for consistent patterns concluded that the personality of a person
of behavior”. While Cloninger (p.3) there are two kinds. There are the
defined, “Personality as the underlying extrovert and introvert. First, the extrovert
causes within the person of individual are more open and easy to express
behavior and experience”. From both opinions, and the second one is the
statements, it can be conclude that introvert are more closed and tend to be
personality is the characteristics which are quiet. Both of these personalities certainly
possessed by an individual; these are the have different levels of participation in
characteristics that distinguish us from learning speaking. Extroverts will be more
other people, which are relatively dominant and have more learning

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accuracy than introverts who more tend to two steps that used in this research as
be quiet and will silent if they did not sure follows: the writer compares the extrovert
about what they want to say. Of course and introvert students to their way of
this problem should not happen. Students learning speaking. The comparison
should have equal opportunities in described the similarities and the
learning whether extrovert or introvert. differences of both students’ personalities.
But as we all know, lot of teachers treat The next was comparative analysis to the
the students in one class with same speaking score of the extrovert and
method. This situation will not become a introvert students. This analysis was to
big problem for the extrovert because they answer the research questions. The
will easily adapt in any situation, but it Implementation of the Research: (1) Give
will be a big problem for the introverts. the questionnaire to the students, (2) Give
The writer hopes that the findings the oral test to gate the students speaking
of this research may help the speaking score (3) Calculate the students speaking
class lecturer to understand the score to answer the research questions.
personality, method (learning style and
learning strategy) that the students Discussion
This research is conducted in the
develop for gaining success in the
science two and science three in the
speaking class. Also to help the students
eleventh grade of Senior High School. 44
of Speaking Class to understand
students were selected as the sample of the
themselves and their needs in order to
research. Students’ speaking performance
make the learning process runs well.
is assessed by oral test using simulation

Research Methodology and role play technique. The speaking

In order to achieve the aim of this score has five criteria, such as
research, it is necessary to apply a suitable pronunciation, vocabulary, fluency,
method to fulfilling the needs to obtain the grammar and comprehension.
information of the data and variables. The The 42 students are the extrovert
appropriate method of this research is and the introvert students from the two
correlation research. The sample of this classes of the eleventh grade of Senior
research was 44, sample was selected High School which become the sample of
using simple random sampling. There are the research namely eleventh grade of

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science 2 and science 3, the researcher has personality. From this percentage, we can
conducted the personality test to classify see that the extrovert students is smaller
the students into extrovert and introvert than the introvert students.
personality test. The result shows that the If we want to observe in other
22 students are extrovert and 30 students school or other classes, we will get the
are introvert. To get the valid calculation same result that the introvert is higher than
the researcher took the equal number both the extrovert personality. It is because we
the extrovert and introvert students to can rarely find this type of students who
become the sample of the research for the are more active and have leadership ability
speaking test. The way to find the average with the skill of speaking.
of the extrovert and introverts students’ The English Speaking Skill of the
score is by the following calculation. Extrovert and the Introvert Students
To interpret the data, the writer may The researcher assessed the
have a look to the analysis of data English speaking skill of students from
spreading at the previous pages. The five points namely: accent, grammar,
interpretation is divided into four parts: vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
The Frequency of the Extrovert and the The researcher used simulation and role-
Introvert Students play technique in the speaking test where
Based on the sample class namely an extrovert students was paired with an
the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 introvert students and they should
Sukahaji, the researcher has conducted the simulate and role-play about some topics
personality test to clasify the students into that have been prepared by the teacher.
extrovert or introvert personality to the 52 The result of the speaking test shows that
students and the researcher has got the the extrovert students get better English
result of the personality test. The result speaking score on the points of accent,
shows that the 22 students are the vocabulary, and fluency. Meanwhile, the
extrovert personality, and the 30 students introvert students get better English
are the introvert personality (see Appendix speaking score on the point of grammar
5 and 6). It was 42,30% for the extrovert and comprehension.
personality, and 57,70% for the introvert

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Table 1. The Five Points Average and Percentage of the Speaking Test
of the Extrovert Students
Accent Gram Vocab Fluency Compre
Total 110 77 113 95 85
Average 5 3,5 5,13 4,31 3,8
Percentage 23,00% 16,00% 23,50% 19,80% 17.70%

Table 2. The Five Points Average and Percentage of the Speaking Test
of the Introvert Students
Accent Gram Vocab Fluency Compre
Total 80 110 89 86 110
Average 3,6 5 4,04 3,9 5
Percentage 16,85% 23,15% 18,75% 18,10% 23,15%

From two tables above, it clearly students’. Those table shows that the
shows the differences of the extrovert and percentage of the 22 introvert students’ in
the introvert students’ English speaking the aspect of grammar is 23,15% while the
skill. The Extrovert students are better in extrovert students’ percentage in the
aspect of accent, vocabulary, and fluency grammar aspect is 16.00%. Meanwhile, in
than the introvert students. The percentage the aspect of comprehension, the introvert
of the 22 extrovert students who have students get 23,15% and the extrovert
been tested about their English speaking students get 17,70%.
in accent aspect is 23.00% while the The Better Ability in English Speaking
percentage of the 22 introvert students in Skill
the accent aspect is only 16,85% . In the The extrovert students are assumed
vocabulary aspect, the extrovert students’ to have a good ability and better ability in
percentage is 23.50% while the introvert speaking. In this research, their score of
students’ percentage is 18,75%. speaking 72,54 in average. The introvert
Meanwhile, in the fluency aspect, the students are well-known as the stolid
extrovert students’ get 19,80% while the person, they are estimated to be a person
introvert students’ get 18.10%. who has less ability in speaking than the
However, the introvert students’ are extrovert. However, the average of the
better in the aspect of grammar and introvert students is 71,72. the data tells
comprehension than the extrovert that the score of the extrovert students in

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English speaking skill is higher than the 17,70% (comprehension). These data
introvert students. The extrovert students showed that the extrovert students ia
in the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 better in the aspect of accent, vocabulary
Sukahaji proved that the presumption on and fluency while the introvert students is
the theory is true even though they better in the aspect of grammar and
sometimes could be untrue along with the comprehension.
theory ever once in a while. The second conclusion asked about
how the extrovert students get better in
Conclusion speaking score than the introvert students
The first conclusion also related to in English speking skill. The data showed
the first formulation of the research that that the average of the extrovert students
asked about how is the English speaking is higher from the introvert students. The
skill of the extrovert and the introvert causes is the extrovert students good in
students. Based on the data, the extrovert three aspect from the five aspect of
students get 72,54 in average while the speaking that is accent, vocabulary and
introvert students get 71,72 in average. fluency while the introvert students good
These average calculations showed that in two aspect that is grammar and
the extrovert students get higher average comprehension. It related with the
of English speaking score than the extrovert students personality who more
introvert students. Exactly, both extrovert active in speaking. With the extrovert
and introvert students have the superiority. personality, the extrovert students easy to
The extrovert students are better in the practice and remind the pronunciation or
points of accent (23,00%), vocabulary imitate the active speaker when they
(23,50%), and fluency (19,80%) than the practice the English speaking in the class.
introvert students who get the percentage Beside that, the extrovert students did not
16,85& (accent), 18,75% (vocabulary), pay attention to the structure of the
and 18,10% (fluency). However, the sentence that make they get the lower
introvert students are better in aspect of score in the aspect of grammar and less in
grammar (23,15%) and comprehension the aspect of comprehension. However,
(23,15%) than the extrovert students who the introvert students who are the stolid
get the percentage 16,00% (grammar) and person prefer to observe than to practice.

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Bacause of their personality, they are good

in the aspect of grammar and
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