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ABSTRACT Irum Elda Putri: 2316068, “The Correlation between Students’ Self Esteem and Their Speaking Skill at The Eleventh Grade of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas”, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, 2022. The background of this research was there were several problems related to students’ self-esteem. The theories said that the students who have self-esteem, so they will be able in speaking. Conversely, the students who have lack self-esteem, so they tend to avoid opportunity in speaking.Otherwise, the researcher found the problemsrelated to the students’ self-esteem, and those problems were contrary with the theory. There were some students who have lack self-esteem, but they have a good score in speaking.Nevertheless,there were some students capable to speak English even though it was not perfect, but they still have a good score in speaking.As a result, the researcher wanted to find out the correlation between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill at the eleven grade of SMA ExcellentNurul IKhlas. Thus, this research was done in SMA Excellent Nurul IKhlas. The design of this research was correlational research. The instrument of this research was a questionnaire for measuring students’ self-esteem and a speaking test (retelling a story of the hungry lion and the foolish stag) for measuring students’ speaking skills. The population of this research was all of the eleven grade students of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas in the academic years of 2020/2021 which consists of 4 classes. The sample was 57 students taken by saturation sampling technique. The research was carried out in Desember 2021. To find that the students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill correlate or not, the researcher used the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results of the research show that there is a correlation between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill at the eleven grade of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas academic years 2020/2021. The researcher found that the coefficient of correlation between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill at the tenth grade of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas was 0,257. There was a positive correlation and significance. It means that Ho is accepted. Thus, there is a positive correlation between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill at the eleven grade of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas . Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that self-esteem has a positive contribution to speaking skills. It means that if the students have high self-esteem, they have high skill in speaking. Conversely, if the students have low self-esteem, they have low skill in speaking. In conclusion, this research is done for finding the correlation between students’ self-esteem and their speaking skill at the eleven grade of SMA Excellent Nurul Ikhlas. Keywords: Correlation, Self-Esteem, Speaking Skills.