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ABSTRACT Riva Silvia Sari: 2316066, “The Correlation Between Students’ Self Confidence and Their Speaking Skill at The Twelfth Grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi”, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, 2020. This research was done because self-confidence was a significant factor in supporting the students in speaking skill. In foreign language learning, psychological factor can be affected the students in oral language production. As a result, the researcher wanted to find out the correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill at the twelfth grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi. Thus, this research was done in SMA N 2 Bukittinggi. The design of this research was correlational research. The instruments of this research were personality test for measuring students’ self-confidence and speaking test (retelling a story of the needle tree) for measuring students’ speaking skill. The population of this research was all of the twelfth grade students of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi in the academic year of 2020/2021 which consists of 8 classes. The sample was 28 students taken by simple random sampling technique. The research was carried out in November 2020. To find that the students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill have correlation or not, the researcher used Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results of the research show that there is a correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill at the twelfth grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi academic years 2020/2021. The researcher found that the coefficient of correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill at the twelfth grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi was 0,286. There was positive correlation and significant. It means that Ho is accepted. Thus, there is a positive correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill at the twelfth grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that self-confidence has positive contribution in speaking skill. It means that if the students have high self-confidence, they have high skill in speaking. Conversely, if the students have low self-confidence, they have low skill in speaking. In conclusion, this research is done for finding the correlation between students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill at the twelfth grade of SMA N 2 Bukittinggi.